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In “Time’s Echo,” the classical music critic Jeremy Eichler examines the life and work of Richard Strauss, Arnold Schoenberg, Benjamin Britten and Dmitri Shostakovich.

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.

The actor narrates Ann Patchett’s sentimental new novel, “Tom Lake,” about a Midwestern family.

“I’m no longer a leader in the fight,” says Sergio Ramírez. “Now I’m just an author being punished for the words he writes.” His latest crime tale is out in English.

In four new picture books, lions, tigers and house cats stand in for young children as they rein in wild emotions or finally let out a roar.

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

One thing that drew Leigh Bardugo to the Avengers as a girl was that their turnover rate meant they were always hiring.