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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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

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

Robert P. Baird’s debut novel is about a divinity professor whose 2-year-old son radiates in a way that might be divine.

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