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

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

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

In “Sick and Dirty,” Michael Koresky romps through movies from the 1930s to the ’60s to examine the effects of the Motion Picture Production Code.

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

The month’s new releases include novels by Walter Mosley, Akwaeke Emezi and Sarah Perry, and nonfiction about the Battle of the Bulge, the moon and Donald Trump.

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

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

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.

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