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For kids who hide indoors with a pile of books until the autumnal chill arrives.

As a longtime Washington Post reporter and an author of 10 books, he held corporate America accountable for safe pharmaceuticals and cars.

He identified as a “citizen diplomat” and preached mutual respect because, he explained, “everybody is a somebody.”

What can a fifth-century text by St. Augustine tell us about the priorities of the two most powerful American Catholics?

Stendhal’s “The Charterhouse of Parma” lays out thousands of rules and stratagems for elites trying to stay in the good graces of a powerful and capricious ruler.

A verbal gymnast on and off the page (as well as a musician and photographer), he was a founder of the Dark Room Collective, a community of writers, and fostered a boom in Black poetry.

The music historian Peter Guralnick’s new book, which draws on documents Tom Parker left behind, paints a different picture of an infamous industry figure.