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Emily Wilson’s translation of the “Iliad” brings Homer’s great war story to rousing new life.

New books by Bora Chung, Rafael Frumkin and Laird Hunt explore the chaotic intricacies of being alive.

The new memoir by the former vice president defends her campaign and allows others to criticize Joe Biden and his team for her failure to win.

“1929,” by the New York Times journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin, is a tale of greed, corruption and incompetence to shock the conscience.

“2024,” a campaign book by three seasoned political journalists, immerses readers in the chaos and ironies of the race for the White House.

Philippe Sands considers the case of the dictator Augusto Pinochet, who eluded efforts to bring him to account for state-sponsored terror in Chile.

In its first half-century, Ms. magazine upended norms, disrupted the print world and made trouble. It was a start.

In “A Better World,” a family hoping to escape their dangerous reality gets invited to an exclusive town only to discover that it’s not as peaceful as it seems.

Caroline Crampton shares her own worries in “A Body Made of Glass,” a history of hypochondria that wonders whether newfangled technology drives us crazier.

The novel “A Calamity of Noble Houses” tries to piece together a fateful night that has reverberations for two families across four generations.