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Julia Armfield’s “Private Rites” is a contemporary reimagining of the Shakespearean tragedy, set in a flooded London.

In a new book, the mathematical epidemiologist Adam Kucharski explains how certainty, even in math, can be an illusion.

“Prophet Song,” a novel by Paul Lynch, is set in Dublin during a political crisis.

Two very different books examine the reigns and legacies of Victoria and Elizabeth II.

Richard Flanagan’s new book progresses like a nuclear chain reaction, moving from personal narrative to world events.

In the memoir “Rabbit Heart,” Kristine S. Ervin explores the human being behind sensational headlines, and our culture’s insatiable thirst for other people’s tragedy.

In his thoroughly researched “Radiant,” Brad Gooch considers the short, blazing life of the ’80s artist, activist and man about downtown.

In her memoir, “Raising Hare,” Chloe Dalton describes how a leveret changed her outlook on life during the pandemic and beyond.

In “Rat City,” Jon Adams and Edmund Ramsden explore the life, times and influence of the scientific Pied Piper, John Bumpass Calhoun.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Marilynne Robinson delivers a riveting interpretation of the Bible’s first book.