NYTimes

“Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other,” the author’s new collection, ranges from a playful one-act drama set in a lake to short fiction rife with apocalyptic anxiety.

In “The Whole Staggering Mystery,” Sylvia Brownrigg explores her mysterious parent’s past, and finds more than she bargained for.

“Lucky” features a 1970s singer-songwriter who finds improbable success.

The event had been set for April 29, but weeks of escalating criticism of the organization’s response to the war had led nearly half of the prize nominees to withdraw.

Espousing his ideas in best sellers, he insisted that religion was an illusion, free will was a fantasy and evolution could only be explained by natural selection.

The editor and essayist Joseph Epstein looks back on his life and career in two new books.

How Percival Everett and Barbara Kingsolver reimagined classic works by Mark Twain and Charles Dickens.

Creators will spotlight Blondie in the comic strip, as she brings someone on board for her catering business.

Prison, pregnancies and other operatic turns propel Caroline Leavitt’s latest book, “Days of Wonder.”

Focusing on disaster hasn’t changed the planet’s trajectory. Will a more upbeat approach show a way forward?

Slim and precious, “Somehow: Thoughts on Love” doesn’t measure up to her best nonfiction.

Justin Taylor’s novel “Reboot” examines the convergence of entertainment, online arcana and conspiracy theory.

A stroll around the city with a great stylist; a comic novel of love and real estate.

In “The Paris Novel,” Ruth Reichl is a glutton for wish fulfillment.

In “Habsburgs on the Rio Grande,” Raymond Jonas’s story of French-backed nation building in Mexico foreshadows the proxy battles of the Cold War.

In her 60s, she set off on a hulking Harley-Davidson and found a new area of anthropological research: bikers, and in particular, female bikers.

In “The Sorrow Apartments,” Andrea Cohen’s signature maneuver is a kind of twist that shifts a poem away from the ending that seems to be coming.

A new photo book reorients dusty notions of a classic American pastime.

Harvard’s recent decision to remove the binding of a notorious volume in its library has thrown fresh light on a shadowy corner of the rare book world.

Three books describe the work of government investigators who want to uncover or bury the truth.