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From dolphins with Alzheimer’s to cranky traffic judges, writes Clayton Page Aldern, the whole planet is going berserk.

In “The White Ladder,” the British writer Daniel Light explores the heroes, villains and dramas of early mountaineering.

In “The Whole Staggering Mystery,” Sylvia Brownrigg explores her mysterious parent’s past, and finds more than she bargained for.

Details are in Caleb Femi’s new poetry collection, “The Wickedest.”

In “The Wide Wide Sea,” Hampton Sides offers a fuller picture of the British explorer’s final voyage to the Pacific islands.

Alki Zei’s Greek classic, set in the birthplace of democracy in the mid-1930s, feels eerily relevant in today’s America.

In her sweeping second novel, “The Wilderness,” Angela Flournoy inhabits a quartet of shifting perspectives with wit, tenderness and exquisite grace.

Teddy Wayne takes a swing at sex, class and sporty intrigue in his latest novel, “The Winner.”

In the small-scale world of Laura Amy Schlitz’s novel “The Winter of the Dollhouse,” the emotional stakes are both intimate and enormous.

In “The Witch of New York,” Alex Hortis revisits a Staten Island case that helped usher in a lurid new era of journalism.