Books

The year’s best books include the novel “James” by Percival Everett and a memoir by historian Doris Kearns Goodwin.

The detention of Franco-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal in Algeria shows how the shadows of colonialism continue to haunt the world of French letters.

With these recipes, home cooks get to taste flavors from many cultures, often in the very same dish.  

From Japanese printmaker Hokusai to women pioneers of the arts and crafts movement, the images in these volumes offer light and joy to art lovers.

A Russian American girl straddles the worlds of her Ukraine-born Bolshevik father and her Montana-raised cowgirl mother in the 1920s and ’30s in Neal Stephenson’s “Polostan.”

In cities across the United States, Chinatowns are struggling. American storyteller Curtis Chin, author of “Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant,” is on a mission to save these vibrant cultural enclaves.

Alice Loxton doesn’t believe history should be boring or academic. As “History Alice,” she connects with millions of people on social media, and her second book, “Eighteen,” already reached No. 1 in the U.K.

Who was L.M. Montgomery, beyond the writer of a beloved literary character? On the 150th anniversary of the author’s birth, Prince Edward Island is urging a broader understanding.

Fairy tales often present characters as either good or bad. “Wicked” author Gregory Maguire asks readers to let go of binary thinking as they consider morality. 

My novel experience as a children’s librarian was not the quiet desk job I had envisioned. It was so much more.