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In her second novel, “Good Material,” Dolly Alderton adds her own flair to the classic rom-com.

In “Subculture Vulture,” the comedian Moshe Kasher explores the six wildly differing communities that made him who he is, for better or worse.

New books by Emily Ruth Verona, Jenny Kiefer, Christopher Golden and Tlotlo Tsamaase riff on classic tropes and deliver thrilling scares.

Plato and Pushkin, Mickey Mouse and “The Simpsons” make (permissible) appearances in this surprisingly zippy history of copyright protection.

Shubnum Khan’s “The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years” braids a rich historical love story with a contemporary coming-of-age tale in South Africa.

“Last Acts,” by Alexander Sammartino, is a satire of contemporary America set at a firearms shop in Phoenix.

Andrew X. Pham’s first novel, “Twilight Territory,” imagines an unlikely romance during a nation’s fight for independence.

“Lovers in Auschwitz” and “Cold Crematorium,” two works by journalists published 74 years apart, offer different ways of representing the horrors of the Holocaust.

In “Madness,” the journalist Antonia Hylton explores the hidden history of Crownsville Hospital, and America’s continuing failure to care for Black minds.

In “Legacy,” Dr. Uché Blackstock writes about losing her pioneering physician mother and the pervasive health woes of Black Americans.