"Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World" by Henry Grabar; Penguin Press (368 pages, $30) ——— You might expect a book about parking to be a snore. I did. I've tried to read a few in the public library. Didn't…
FICTION: 'The World' is an encyclopedic history of humanity as told through its ruling dynasties. "The World: A Family History of Humanity" by Simon Sebag Montefiore; Knopf (1,344 pages, $45) ——— "The world is too much with us," William Wordsworth…
"American Childhood: A Photographic History" by Todd Brewster; Scribner (320 pages, $36) ——— Of all the things America invented, the greatest might have been childhood. The nation’s Child Labor Act of 1916 finally freed youngsters from toiling in factories or…
Don't Miss "Under the Henfluence" by Tove Danovich; Agate (274 pages, $27) ——— I don't know about you, but I live in a neighborhood that has lots of backyard chicken coops. On my morning walks, I can hear the birds…
FICTION: An outlandish coming-of-age story from a late, larger-than-life Argentine author. "Cousins" by Aurora Venturini, translated from the Spanish by Kit Maude; Soft Skull (208 pages, $17.95) ——— When Aurora Venturini's "Cousins" won the 2007 New Novel Award from Argentina's…
NONFICTION: A flaws-and-all examination of Martin Luther King Jr.'s critique of inequality and war. "King: A Life" by Jonathan Eig; Farrar, Straus, and Giroux (688 pages, $35) ——— As he watched Black citizens declare war on segregation during the bus…
FICTION: Emma Cline's latest is a wonderfully suspenseful examination of luxury, delusion, class and fear. "The Guest" by Emma Cline; Random House (291 pages, $28) ——— In Emma Cline's "The Guest," 22-year-old Alex lies, trespasses, manipulates and steals over the…
The first Black boxing champion was a man named Jack Johnson and a few years before he died in 1946, he told a young reporter, “Just remember, whatever you write about me, that I was a man.” You will meet…
FICTION: A mesmerizing novel about a young woman wrestling with grief and madness during the Blitz. "The Midnight News" by Jo Baker; Alfred A. Knopf (336 pages, $29) ——— Jo Baker's 2017 novel "A Country Road, A Tree" revolved around…
"Blue Skies" by T.C. Boyle; Livewright (384 pages, $30) ——— In his latest novel, “Blue Skies,” T.C. Boyle comes up with a new variation on the literary principal of Chekhov’s gun: If a character in a Florida story acquires a…
Derek Jeter and Andy North will once again tee it up at the American Family Insurance Championship. They'll be joined by an Olympic icon and a Masters champ.
The Met Police said eight arrests had been made following the march by 28 protesters on Parliament Square this morning.
Stock futures were moving slightly higher ahead of Wednesday's open, with investors watching for more data, earnings and debt-ceiling progress.
Fallout from budget and staffing constraints is more serious and stressful for cyber executives even if similar limitations affect every department, according to one CISO.
The appeals-court hearing could provide clues about conservative judges’ openness to arguments by antiabortion groups.
The leading streaming service had fewer than one million U.S. subscribers on its ad-supported subscription plan as of March.
Cheap lending has hit banks’ interest margins, which could weaken their capital positions.
The academics acknowledged financial transactions with the late convicted sex offender.
As investors and regulators seek more information on companies’ country-by-country levies, tax officers cite high costs, challenges in data collection.
Uncool gadgets got cool with the iPod, iPhone and Apple Watch. Now the company is taking on mixed-reality goggles.
The company has said it expects its shares, now trading for pennies, will be worthless.
More than three dozen American athletes during the past year have gone to Russia to play professionally, even as U.S. officials caution about the risks.
Car accidents, homicides, suicides and drug overdoses have pushed up death rates for children and teens in the U.S.
Auto-repair prices are running 20% higher than a year ago, striking U.S. consumers facing low availability of new cars and making it more difficult for the Federal Reserve to put the brakes on inflation.
The reading ability of Australia’s year 4 students held steady in the latest global test results, but one in five students are not meeting international benchmarks.