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A book by the chairman of HSBC proposes a "new capitalism" that brings good business and good ethics together. In an NPR interview, Green, who is also an ordained priest in the Church of England, says moral and spiritual values should take precedence over immediate profit for the world's major banks.

A new authorized biography, Willie Mays: The Life, The Legend, has the baseball great, now 78 years old, out on tour, talking about his life, his career and — inevitably — the famous play he made in the 1954 World Series, known in baseball lore simply as "The Catch."

In 2001, CNN acquired a vast stash of audiotapes from a house in Kandahar that once belonged to Osama bin Laden. The tapes, bin Laden's personal collection, provide a rare glimpse into the minds and lives of al-Qaida militants.

The prolific and perennially controversial celebrity biographer takes a look at the life of a talk show host who doesn't much like to be talked about. Not surprisingly, Kelley's latest bio is entirely unauthorized.

Poetry Speaks Who I Am is a collection of poems intended not "for parents, for children, for classroom study or for required memorization," says editor Elise Paschen. It's for tweens and young teens, and includes poems about school, cars and the horror of shopping for your first bra.

Walter Mosley has written more than two dozen books featuring unforgettable black characters as lovers, thugs, bad guys, good guys — and guys who are a little of each. Mosley is now lending his voice to an effort by the American Library Association to introduce young people to books with diverse authors and characters.

Based on one of America's most emblematic pieces of intellectual property, Greta Gerwig's Barbie movie was never going to be just a movie, because Barbie was never just a doll.

Artist and Vietnam veteran Michael Reagan draws piercingly realistic portraits of American soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. So far, he has drawn about 2,000 of the 4,300 Americans killed in those wars. And he has found himself filling a deep need for the grieving families — and for himself.

Isaac Herzog's visit to Capitol Hill came after the House passed a GOP-led resolution reaffirming support for Israel in the wake of incendiary comments made and then walked back by a leading Democrat.

The current rap capital thrives on a thrilling contradiction: Its best music is at once hyperlocal and globally accessible, true to its roots but built for scale.