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The third book by K-Ming Chang is a coming-of-age story mired in body horror, feminism, rot and decay.

In a new book, the medical historian Howard Markel homes in on Darwin’s physical and emotional travails — and the colleagues who rallied to his cause.

“Original Sin,” by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson, depicts an aging president whose family and aides enabled his quixotic campaign for a second term.

In Alan Hollinghurst’s new novel, “Our Evenings,” a Burmese English actor grapples with race and ambition, sexuality and love in a bigoted world.

In “Our Moon,” Rebecca Boyle elucidates how Earth’s closest neighbor makes us what — and who — we are.

In the author’s latest collection, “Our Strangers,” quotidian situations are stripped down to come alive.

In “Ours Was the Shining Future,” the New York Times writer David Leonhardt dissects the country’s record on prosperity, arguing that progressive policies are best suited for achieving our ideals.

In “Out of the Darkness,” Frank Trentmann details the way people in the country that started World War II are still confronting and atoning for the atrocities of their government.

A new book chronicles the last 50 years of a notorious American tabloid.

Her new novel, “Parade,” considers the perplexity and solipsism of the creative life.