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Clean home, clean mind. Or at least you can try, with the help of several tomes about doing more with less.

In a widely read book, he detailed gruesome biological experiments on people at a secret Imperial Army site in occupied China before and during World War II.

The Pennsylvania senator will recount political battles and physical and mental health challenges in “Unfettered.”

This month’s offerings include a collection of warped horror stories, an apocalyptic flood narrative and a hero doing battle with a super-being who sees humankind as a race of pests to eliminate.

Molly recommends Annie Ernaux’s photographic record of a love affair and a sociologist’s study of the moments when conflict turns violent.

The wildly popular fiction genre allows readers to talk openly about yearning, sex and desire. And it’s spilling over into their bedrooms.

Sarah Lyall talks to Adrian Edwards, head of the Printed Heritage Collections at the British Library, about the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s First Folio.

As her career took off, the best-selling Canadian novelist found the ideal office mate: her cat. They even had matching desk chairs.

In a new memoir, the marine biologist Jasmin Graham reflects on her passion for studying sharks and the barriers she refused to let stop her.

She wrote memorably about her upbringing by a circle of maternal elders and the life lessons they imparted, and of her yearning for the mother she lost.