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In “The Language Puzzle,” the archaeologist Steven Mithen asks exactly how our species started speaking.

Brandon Taylor’s novel circulates among Iowa City residents, some privileged, some not, but all aware that their possibilities are contracting.

“The Leftover Woman” follows two struggling women living completely different lives. How do their paths overlap?

In “The Life and Lies of Charles Dickens,” Helena Kelly revisits the image the author crafted so carefully in his lifetime.

In “The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus,” a college student balances her new independence while investigating the demise of her parents’ marriage.

In “The Life Impossible,” a 72-year-old widow tries to figure out what happened to a friend who disappeared in Ibiza.

In her new memoir, “The Light Room,” Kate Zambreno looks back on the unending togetherness of family life during the pandemic.

After receiving plaudits for his recent novels, Lerner returns to verse with an expansive new collection, “The Lights.”

In her far-reaching latest novel, “The Limits,” Nell Freudenberger forges connections between the global and the familial.

Two new middle grade novels insist Hans Christian Andersen got it all wrong.