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.

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

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.

Adam Aleksic, known to his many online followers as Etymology Nerd, writes about the ways social media is changing language.

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.

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.

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 ...