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Fran Littlewood’s debut novel, “Amazing Grace Adams,” takes readers on a tour of a mother’s darkest hour.

Ariel Dorfman’s novel “The Suicide Museum” uses the controversy around a president’s death to examine personal and collective grief.

From Michael Jordan to Russell Westbrook, Dennis Rodman to LeBron James, “Fly” traces the looks that have defined basketball style from the beginning.

“The Rigor of Angels,” by William Egginton, considers how three very different men — Jorge Luis Borges, Immanuel Kant and Werner Heisenberg — rejected conventional assumptions about reality and embraced paradoxical truths instead.

His new novel, “Holly,” charges into thorny contemporary debates with a pair of unassuming fiends.

In “The Last Politician,” Franklin Foer presents the first half of Biden’s presidency as a series of made-for-television moments meant to inspire doubters and assuage critics.

You know those battered, tattered recipe collections put out by Rotary Clubs, bridge groups and P.T.A.s across the country? They inspired this TikTok star’s best seller.

In “Fortune’s Frenzy,” Eilene Lyon traces the hardship and misery endured by Henry Jenkins, a stalwart Indiana farmer who, along with thousands of others, journeyed to California in 1851.

“The Deadline” collects 46 essays on subjects ranging from Herman Melville and Jane Franklin to feminism and A.I.

In “Fixer,” his second collection, the poet Edgar Kunz demonstrates a hard familiarity with the gig economy.