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“Menewood” continues Nicola Griffith’s epic portrayal of the abbess Hild of Whitby.

In “Mercury,” Amy Jo Burns explores the conflicting loyalties and many secrets of a roofing clan in small-town Pennsylvania.

A Mexican American family heads to Jalisco in their Winnebago and a “bruja” from Puerto Rico steps out of a cab in Brooklyn.

The new book by Jennifer Burns aims to bring fresh complexity to our understanding of the Nobel Prize-winning economist.

Yoko Ogawa’s “Mina’s Matchbox” is a novel of family secrets and formative childhood moments recounted by a young girl.

In Brandon Taylor’s new novel, “Minor Black Figures,” an emerging painter explores what it means to create and experience art in an increasingly political world.

Honorée Fanonne Jeffers’s first nonfiction book is equal parts memoir, history, polemic and poetry.

“Misery of Love,” by the French virtuoso cartoonist Yvan Alagbé, is a subtle masterpiece of family psychodrama.

The protagonist of Madison Newbound’s debut novel, “Misrecognition,” returns to her hometown after a breakup with her power-imbalanced polycule.

A new biography of the performer, writer and director Elaine May has the intensity to match its subject.