Books
- Beyond ‘Almost Famous’: Cameron Crowe shows his ‘Uncool’ side in memoirFilmmaker Cameron Crowe digs into his past as a chronicler of rock ‘n’ roll idols and explores his pivot to the movies.
- ‘We don’t even know all of what we have.’ Howard fights to preserve Black newspapers.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.
- A cupboard full of ‘wild books’: Singing the praises of Little Free LibrariesIn an era when the latest books trend on social media, Little Free Libraries offer a sense of serendipity, community, and connection.
- Children’s cookbooks stir the creativity of budding chefsFour kid-tested and -approved cookbooks yield many servings of fun in the kitchen.
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- A mystery wrapped in moss and buried in a bogIn Anna North’s "Bog Queen," a female forensic scientist attempts to solve the puzzle of a well-preserved body found in a peat bog.
- How comedian Roy Wood Jr. became a ‘Man of Many Fathers’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.
- In ‘Hostage,’ Eli Sharabi chronicles his 491 days in Hamas captivity"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.
- Fall is for falling in love with books. Here are October’s 10 best.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.
- What does the worst stock market crash in history have to tell us today?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.
- ‘The law didn’t respect them’: How the US deported thousands of citizens 100 years agoIn 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.
- In the memoir ‘Joyride,’ Susan Orlean turns her investigative eye inwardTo this master of narrative nonfiction, something extraordinary is waiting under every rock, beckoning her to look closer.
- ‘This thing of darkness I acknowledge mine.’ How two murderers found grace performing Shakespeare.Performing Shakespeare in prison helped two murderers rediscover their humanity and find redemption. They vow to "be wise hereafter and seek for grace."
- ‘There is an inner poet in all of us.’ Laureate Arthur Sze on poetry as discovery.Arthur Sze, the new U.S. poet laureate, hopes you’ll take time to read a poem today – slowly. Within it, he says in an interview, are words and phrases that can be "seeds that nurture you."
- When the storms of daily life loom, my family finds refuge in readingIn an era in which devices and social media can increasingly pull us apart, one family discovers connection and togetherness in books.
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