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Our crime columnist recommends four September books.

“The Rigor of Angels,” by William Egginton, considers how three very different men — Jorge Luis Borges, Immanuel Kant and Werner Heisenberg — rejected conventional assumptions about reality and embraced paradoxical truths instead.

The actor narrates Ann Patchett’s sentimental new novel, “Tom Lake,” about a Midwestern family.

One thing that drew Leigh Bardugo to the Avengers as a girl was that their turnover rate meant they were always hiring.

In “The Last Politician,” Franklin Foer presents the first half of Biden’s presidency as a series of made-for-television moments meant to inspire doubters and assuage critics.

You know those battered, tattered recipe collections put out by Rotary Clubs, bridge groups and P.T.A.s across the country? They inspired this TikTok star’s best seller.

A domestic scene where the home is not a place of safety or comfort but a site of labor. 

In “Fortune’s Frenzy,” Eilene Lyon traces the hardship and misery endured by Henry Jenkins, a stalwart Indiana farmer who, along with thousands of others, journeyed to California in 1851.

“I have music and rhythm to help me get my point across,” says the singer and songwriter, whose new memoir is “Talking to My Angels.” “But real poets do it all just with the language and the lines. That’s a gift.”

The marks and scars of difficult work underpin four new design books.