PEARLY EVERLASTING (Harper, 352 pp., $28.99) is named for its beguiling tomboy narrator, who in turn is named for a plant ...

Music journalist Jonathan Scott explores the early history of recorded sound: from the first-known recordings in the 1800s to the most significant vinyl records of the 1940s.

Of Leather and Stone' is a compelling odyssey across 150 years of American history as told through the stories of three ...