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In Marie-Helene Bertino’s remarkable funny-sad novel, the young visitor and her mother find the means to persevere in the aisles of a cosmetics store.

In “Making It in America,” Rachel Slade examines the challenges of domestic production through the lens of one Maine company.

Cynthia Zarin’s first novel, “Inverno,” is a tale of a woman’s incurable longing and haunted past.

Álvaro Enrigue’s “You Dreamed of Empires” is a hallucinatory tale of the conquistadors’ arrival at Moctezuma’s gates.

In “Pure Wit,” Francesca Peacock makes a fresh case for the writer Margaret Cavendish’s place in the feminist canon.

In “Poor Deer,” Claire Oshetsky explores the long shadow of a tragedy with devastating consequences.

In “The Furies,” the journalist Elizabeth Flock reports the stories of three women who fought back — to defend themselves, other women or their people.

The illustrator of classic children’s books like “Frederick” and “Swimmy” was also a painter, sculptor, graphic designer and more.

Emily Cockayne’s “Penning Poison,” a history of anonymous letters, reveals the ways we’ve been torturing one another, verbally, for centuries.

In “The Other Side,” the art critic Jennifer Higgie explores artists who found self-expression through different media — and mediums.