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The taut, disturbing stories in Bob Johnson’s “The Continental Divide” share the setting of a rural hamlet in Indiana — and transcend it.

In his memoir “The Controversialist,” Martin Peretz reflects on his long tenure as publisher and editor of The New Republic.

Lydia Reeder’s “The Cure for Women” tells the story of the remarkable Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi.

In “The Darkest White,” Eric Blehm chronicles the 2003 disaster that killed the pioneering snowboarder Craig Kelly and six others.

In “The Dazzling Paget Sisters,” Ariane Bankes unearths the writings of her high-society mother and aunt, getting glimpses at the 20th-century figures with whom they cavorted.

In a new book, Cara Fitzpatrick traces the rise of the movement to expand public funding for privately operated institutions.

In “The Demon of Unrest,” present-day political strife inspires a dramatic portrait of the run-up to the deadliest war on American soil.

In “The Deserters,” Mathias Énard weaves the story of a lone soldier with that of a brilliant scholar.

In Ia Genberg’s “The Details,” the unnamed narrator spends the duration of an illness reflecting on her bygone relationships.

“The Devil’s Best Trick,” Randall Sullivan’s in-depth occult investigation, is not for the easily frightened.