Nick Hornby has been writing about pop culture since the 1990s, most famously his obsessive love of soccer in 1992’s “Fever Pitch” and of music in “High Fidelity,” three years later. Now ...

In Hornby’s 1995 “High Fidelity,” a novel about the bliss and woes of deep music fandom, a character names a Prince tune as one of her all-time favorites.

This is a model train produced by Hornby / Meccano around 1954. It's pretty rusted and the clockwork mechanism was completely seized. I didn't want to disassemble this engine not to damage the ...

Credit: Courtesy The cover of Nick Hornby’s Dickens and Prince: A Particular Kind of Genius features a Victorian top hat hanging on the tip of the penis-like appendage curling from the bottom of ...