There is utility to be had in Bill Gates’s memoir of childhood, Source Code: My Beginnings (Knopf, Feb. 4), but there is also joy: the joy at marveling at genius coming into focus — confident, ...

Crab is back on the menu. California’s commercial Dungeness crab season, which opened in January and is expected to last through April, is now in full swing. That means fresh, tender crab meat is ...

The Mardi Gras parades, soul food and dreamy beaches of Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana are set to be the next big thing ...