Immersing you in other worlds, vividly imagined characters or incredible true stories, the best audiobooks have never been so popular. From A-list actors narrating romantic novels to tell-all memoirs ...

There is an audiobook of William Kent Krueger’s new mystery, “Apostle’s Cove,” but it is not read by him. Oh, he auditioned.

Then we have Native Americans. For centuries, even as I grew up in the United States in the 1960s, a belief persisted that ...