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A new history by Fergus M. Bordewich examines Ulysses S. Grant’s battle against white supremacist terror.

The filmmaker’s new memoir, “Every Man for Himself and God Against All,” prompts a critic’s incredulity.

“The Leftover Woman” follows two struggling women living completely different lives. How do their paths overlap?

With the republication of “The Children’s Bach,” a 1984 novel, and “This House of Grief,” a 2014 account of a murder trial, the Australian writer Helen Garner is ripe for discovery by American readers.

In her new book, “Brainwyrms,” Alison Rumfitt reimagines contemporary anti-trans bigotry as a ravenous helminth that causes its hosts to go violently mad.

A new collection of her novels and stories is a showcase for a science fiction pioneer.

The heroine of Ainslie Hogarth’s “Normal Women” is so desperate to escape the confines of conventional, upper-middle-class womanhood that she turns to a yoga studio that looks a lot like a cult.

Justin Torres’s genre-defying new book, “Blackouts,” explores what it means to be erased and how to persist after being wiped away.

New works of nonfiction and fiction transcend stereotypes, and connect a wealth of ideas and facts for young readers.

Mary Gabriel’s biography is as thorough as its subject is disciplined. But in relentlessly defending the superstar, where’s the party?