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Reading Anna Akbari’s memoir of online manipulation, you think you’ve seen it all — then you keep reading.

Bruce Handy, Lisk Feng and Cat Min present shadows for what they are: the non-nefarious interplay of light and dark.

In Jen Silverman’s new novel, “There’s Going to Be Trouble,” two generations of activists wrestle with the errors of the past as they strive to create a more survivable future.

Mai Sennaar’s “They Dream in Gold” weaves together the stories of a Black American woman’s search for her Swiss-Senegalese lover and the people who’ve shaped the couple’s lives.

In “Things That Go Bump in the Universe,” the astronomer C. Renée James writes about what we can learn from the more exotic shapes and sounds in outer space.

Lyz Lenz opens up about an unhappy union, and what she learned from it, in “This American Ex-Wife.”

Collections by Vauhini Vara, Shannon Sanders and LaToya Watkins feature characters caught in the challenges and contradictions of being alive.

Inspired by her own family’s past, Claire Messud’s “This Strange Eventful History” unfolds over seven decades and two wars.

A comprehensive new biography, by Michael Nott, lays bare the tragic circumstances behind a brilliant iconoclast’s life and work.

Cult leaders, curdled 1960s idealism and outsider art collide in Max Ludington’s prismatic novel, “Thorn Tree.”