The Key to Everything,” by Margaret A. Brucia, is the first biography of May Swenson, a poet who fashioned her own unique ...

Sophie Elmhirst’s “A Marriage at Sea” chronicles the doomed aquatic adventure of a British husband and wife in 1972.

1 ATMOSPHERE (Ballantine, $30). By Taylor Jenkins Reid. A scientist joins a 1980s NASA training program intending to become ...

The second volume of the historian’s account of the American Revolution is told with tremendous verve and detail.

In “Dolly Parton’s Jolene,” professor Lydia R. Hamessley offers an entertaining analysis of the song and its legacy.

Check out Craig Thompson’s latest graphic memoir, plus three other books that explore the range of the comics medium.

Charlotte Runcie’s entertaining debut novel provides food for thought on a variety of complex topics, including power ...

Hal Ebbott’s novel unpacks the aftermath of an interaction that threatens a decades-long friendship between two men.

André Aciman once again celebrates imperfect, unconventional relationships in the three novellas that make up ”Room on the ...

Set on a Greek Island, Pochoda’s novel ‘Ecstasy,’ transforms Euripides’ ancient classic ‘The Bacchae’ into a contemporary ...

Heather Christle’s “In the Rhododendrons: A Memoir with Appearances by Virginia Woolf” is an unusual blend of personal and ...

Will Potter’s “Little Red Barns” is an impassioned and thoroughly researched examination of factory farming and how it harms animals, the planet and us.