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Leanne Morgan went from helping her husband sell mobile homes to sudden success in her 50s.

John Birdsall’s “What Is Queer Food?” and Erik Piepenburg’s “Dining Out” both seek to define the place of cuisine in queer culture, history and expression.

In a sharp new book, Jessa Crispin uses the actor’s career to explore, and complicate, the “crisis of masculinity.”

Five yearning Tokyo readers get life advice with their borrowed volumes in Michiko Aoyama’s “What You Are Looking For Is in the Library.”

The new book by Witold Szablowski features the chefs who were expected to prepare sumptuous meals for Russian leaders — and keep them from being poisoned.

“What’s Left,” by Malcolm Harris, arrives at a particularly difficult time to consider anything beyond our immediate turmoil.

In “When Crack Was King,” Donovan X. Ramsey offers a fresh history of the epidemic that gripped minority communities, inflamed media coverage and led to draconian drug laws.

In “When It All Burns,” Jordan Thomas brings an anthropologist’s eye to the life-or-death struggle with fire.

In “When the Clock Broke,” John Ganz shows how a decade remembered as one of placid consensus was roiled by resentment, unrest and the rise of the radical right.

The former Vanity Fair editor reflects on an era’s power moves and expense-account adventures in a new memoir.