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Two new novels riff on fairy tales to explore mothers with unusual hungers and daughters trying to survive them.

“The Land of Sweet Forever” includes stories and essays by a writer who grappled with her Southern roots.

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

Madonna, Scorsese, Warhol and “Piss Christ” play roles in Paul Elie’s maybe-too-comprehensive look at how divisive expressions of faith came to the fore.

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.