Lizzie Pook’s novel about a young woman in the 19th-century outback, “Moonlight and the Pearler’s Daughter,” examines the perils — moral, physical and otherwise — of the pearling industry.

In Pook’s lush debut, a young woman investigates her father’s disappearance in late-19th-century western Australia. After Charles Brightwell goes missing from his pearler ship, his 20-year-old ...

A new biography traces the ascent of a man who made the postwar right at once urbane, combative, and camera-ready. Inspired by “The Crucible,” Miniatures, and “Harriet the Spy” Kimberly ...

On Memorial Day 1973, Chris Pook, then a young travel agent in Long Beach, was watching a street race in Monaco on television — when, he said, “an entrepreneurial light bulb went off.” ...