Microsoft Windows' spooling capabilities enable you to send a large document to the printer so it can work its way through the output process while you move on to other computing tasks. Occasionally, ...

When “Orbital” by Samantha Harvey won this year’s Booker Prize in what I, at least, thought was an upset over “James” by Percival Everett, I was instantly eager to read it. As I had a pre-planned trip ...