“Power Play: Tesla, Elon Musk, and the Bet of the Century” by Tim Higgins; Doubleday (400 pages, $30) Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook and Tesla…

Recalling his years behind bars recently, the actor Danny Trejo sometimes snorted or rubbed his face with both hands, as if bracing himself against traumas…

“The Plague Year” by Lawrence Wright; Alfred A. Knopf (336 pages, $28) What hath Lawrence Wright wrought? For decades the New Yorker staff writer has…

“Tony Lazzeri: Yankees Legend and Baseball Pioneer” by Lawrence Baldassaro; University of Nebraska Press (352 pages, $34.95) Before DiMaggio, there was Lazzeri. A home run…

“The Irish Diaspora: Tales of Emigration, Exile and Imperialism” by Turtle Bunbury; Thames & Hudson (304 pages, $34.95) Ireland’s greatest export always was its people….

Whenever there’s been a war for freedom, women have helped wage it. They were on the battlefield in America’s struggle for independence and the fight…

“Just as I Am” by Cicely Tyson; HarperCollins (432 pages, $28.99) “The art of acting is the art of exposing, an emotional unveiling before others,”…

For more than 25 years, millions of people have awakened and grabbed not their phones, but paper, filling stream-of-consciousness “Morning Pages” — a creativity-boosting ritual…

You know what didn’t fail in 2020? Books. The publishing industry had rough spots, like everyone. Bookstores closed, most struggled. But the medium — unlike…

“His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, a Life” by Jonathan Alter; Simon & Schuster (782 pages, $37.50) You might think you know the story of Jimmy…