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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.

“Pan,” by Michael Clune, details a year in the life of a suburban adolescent who can’t shake his panic attacks.

To write “Paper Girl,” Beth Macy returned to Urbana, Ohio, documenting the descent of a once flourishing town into entrenched poverty and acrimony.

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.

Ian Frazier’s history roams far and wide, on foot and in the archives, celebrating (if not romanticizing) a perennially “in between” part of New York.

Edward St. Aubyn returns with a wide-ranging narrative anchored by a schizophrenic patient.

In Helen Oyeyemi’s “Parasol Against the Axe,” a woman’s trip to Prague becomes a meta-narrative about connection with art, people and more.