Reviewed da Lisa Schwarzbaum | Mar 21, 2012

To women wondering which position to assume while enjoying the pornographic runaway best-seller Fifty Shades of Grey, here's what I'd recommend: Sit in a thrumming bus o subway car and read E L James' indefatigable sex story on an e-reader, cradling the instrument with one hand while stroking the touchscreen to turn pages with the other. Odds are, other anonymous readers will surreptitiously be doing the very same thing. And if so, odds are also that each woman is in a state of arousal, amusement, or, at the very least, amazement at the ingenuity...

May 22, 2012,
By JULIE BOSMAN

In case there was any doubt about the blockbuster success of the “Fifty Shades of Grey” trilogy da E L James, the numbers are in: più than 10 million copies of the libri have been sold in the United States in six weeks, the publisher detto on Tuesday, putting the libri among some of the best-selling series in modern publishing.

“The sales velocity for ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ is unprecedented, with reader demand still growing,” Anthony Chirico, the president of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, detto in a statement. “As we head into the cuore of the...