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Set during the pandemic, Sigrid Nunez’s new novel, “The Vulnerables,” is a story of unlikely companionship and personal reflection.

In “The Waiting Game,” the historian Nicola Clark tells a lively and vivid story of the women who served Henry VIII’s queens.

Wil Haygood’s “The War Within a War” is a rare, illuminating look at the way the war shaped the struggle for equality back home.

In “The Washington Book,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Carlos Lozada mines a genre known for sanitized prose to revealing effect.

In “The Waterbearers,” Sasha Bonét weaves her matrilineal history into a larger struggle for survival and self-knowledge.

In a new book, an anthropologist investigates the makeshift treatment centers that have proliferated during the country’s war on drugs.

Adam Johnson’s new novel focuses on two radically different island communities.

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

In her vivid epistolary novel “The White Hot,” the Pulitzer-winning playwright Quiara Alegría Hudes explores the long-tail legacy of maternal rage and regret.

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