The year’s best memoirs, biographies, history and more, as selected by the staff of The Washington Post’s Book World.

It appears like a mirage on Route 11 – a bubblegum pink building that seems transported straight from 1955 to present-day Natural Bridge, Virginia. The Pink Cadillac Diner stands out against the ...

Peggy Sue’s 50’s Diner in Yermo, California stands like a neon-lit beacon for hungry travelers, a rainbow-arched oasis promising comfort food and a heavy dose of nostalgia between Los Angeles and Las ...

KGB is a vaguely Soviet-themed dive bar attached to the Kraine Theater, and it’s home to its own active literary scene. There ...