Books

Filmmaker Cameron Crowe digs into his past as a chronicler of rock ‘n’ roll idols and explores his pivot to the movies.

Across the United States, scholars are working to preserve the history of the Black press before the brittle pages are lost forever. In a basement at Howard University, uncovered treasures have included Frederick Douglass’ newspaper, The North Star.

In an era when the latest books trend on social media, Little Free Libraries offer a sense of serendipity, community, and connection.

Four kid-tested and -approved cookbooks yield many servings of fun in the kitchen.

In Anna North’s "Bog Queen," a female forensic scientist attempts to solve the puzzle of a well-preserved body found in a peat bog.

With his new book, “The Man of Many Fathers: Life Lessons Disguised as a Memoir,” comedian Roy Wood Jr. may be taking on his heaviest discussion thus far: parenting.

“Hostage” is a frank account of Eli Sharabi’s time in captivity, our critic writes. It is both difficult to read and difficult to put down. 

The midautumn crop of books includes a captivating South Seas saga and a lively history of the stock market crash that sparked the Great Depression.

The immersive new “1929” benefits from journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin’s meticulous archival research and his access to documents never before available, including the board notes from the New York Federal Reserve.

In her new book, Marla A. Ramírez examines the reverberating consequences of a push to deport ethnic Mexicans, many of whom were U.S. citizens, during the Great Depression.