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In “A Killing in Cannabis,” Scott Eden tells the story of a man who tried to straddle the lines between the legal and black-market cannabis worlds, with deadly consequences.

The best-selling author Hannah Bonam-Young recommends swoon-worthy love stories with spicy beginnings.

She fished off the New England coast for more than 80 years, and intended to continue until she died. “It’s not hard work for me,” she said at 101.

“Superfan,” by Jenny Tinghui Zhang, explores the parallel struggles of a K-Pop-inspired star and the lonely college student who adores him.

In “Bernie for Burlington,” Dan Chiasson’s affection for his subject risks turning history into a sales pitch.

In “The Family Snitch,” the reporter Francesca Fontana delves into her father’s criminal history — and their complicated, painful relationship.

Larry Levis’s work, gathered in the expansive new book “Swirl & Vortex,” was equally concerned with the soul and the void.

The pioneering photographer André Kertész is the subject of a new book by Patricia Albers.

A prolific writer and lecturer, he viewed U.S. history through the lens of class struggle. But some accused him of defending brutal regimes in the Soviet Union and Serbia.

Spurning the free verse of many of his contemporaries, he held to an older tradition. He also wrote spirited poems for children.