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“The Troublemaker” is a brisk account of the life and work of Jimmy Lai, the media mogul and democracy activist currently on trial for national security offenses.

A previously unknown manuscript by Alice and Martin Provensen explores the ultimately unknowable psyche of a favorite feline.

A posthumous collection of essays by the anthropologist and activist David Graeber shows a bold thinker whose original arguments could strain credibility.

In “The Unclaimed,” the sociologists Pamela Prickett and Stefan Timmermans tell four stories of dying alone — and living — in America.

Mavis Gallant wrote short stories full of brutal humor that examined the hell of other people.

The itinerant man in Gayl Jones’s “The Unicorn Woman” discovers his beloved as a sideshow carnival attraction.

Her second novel, “The Unsettled,” follows three generations in a family divided between the North and the South in 1980s America.

In Agustina Bazterrica’s new novel, “The Unworthy,” a dystopian future ravaged by climate change has stripped the world of food, water and human connection.

In Karim Dimechkie’s “The Uproar,” the best-laid plans meet worst-case scenarios again and again.

In “The Upside-Down World,” Benjamin Moser roams the galleries of the Netherlands in search of clues to the artists’ biographies.