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“The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels,” a modern take on the epistolary novel, is hard to put down.

Calvin Trillin collects many of his inimitable profiles and essays about journalism in “The Lede.”

“Disillusioned,” by Benjamin Herold, follows five families living in the burbs — where they contend with struggling schools, degraded infrastructure, poverty and discrimination.

In “Martyr!,” the poet Kaveh Akbar turns a grieving young man’s search for meaning into a piercing family saga.

Adam Shatz’s “The Rebel’s Clinic,” a new biography of the psychiatrist and revolutionary Frantz Fanon, aims to restore complexity to a man both revered and reviled for his militancy.

In “The Showman,” the journalist Simon Shuster trails the entertainer-turned-wartime president as he rallies the world for support.

In her new novel, “Dead in Long Beach, California,” Venita Blackburn explores the chaos of mourning by following a woman who stumbles into an ethically dubious way to cope with loss.

In a new book, Manjula Martin explores her accommodation to life in Northern California in an era of increasingly extreme weather.

The anthology “Burn Man” selects from decades of Mark Anthony Jarman’s work, bringing the writer’s lush and searing stories to new readers.

In “Tripping on Utopia,” Benjamin Breen chronicles the legendary anthropologist’s doomed effort to save the world through hallucinogens.