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The professor and social commentator Glenn Loury opens up about his vices in a candid new memoir.

A new book, “The Light Eaters,” looks at how plants sense the world and the agency they have in their own lives.

In “Fat Leonard,” Craig Whitlock investigates one of the worst corruption scandals in U.S. military history.

As Michelle T. King demonstrates in this moving and ambitious biography, Fu Pei-mei was far more than “the Julia Child of Chinese cooking.”

An anxious artist’s road trip stops short for a torrid affair at a tired motel. In “All Fours,” the desire for change is familiar. How to satisfy it isn’t.

In Kimberly King Parsons’s witty, profane novel, “We Were the Universe,” a young mother seeks to salve a profound loss.

In her intimate memoir, “Rebel Girl,” the punk-rock heroine Kathleen Hanna recalls a life of trauma, triumph and riot grrrl rebellion.

The singer and songwriter with a silky-smooth voice has written a memoir with Paul Reiser that recounts his story of pain and redemption with dashes of humor.

Barbara Kingsolver’s debut, and a bad seed’s beginnings.

An entertaining new history by Steven Johnson explores an explosive moment when terror and nascent surveillance collided.