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In Halle Butler’s new book, “Banal Nightmare,” a 30-something woman returns to her hometown to get out of a rut and reassess her life after a bad breakup.

In “Bartleby and Me,” Gay Talese recalls ink-stained colleagues, shares trade secrets and digs through the ruins of a truly explosive Manhattan marriage.

Two new books about the platform chronicle its leadership under first Jack Dorsey and now Elon Musk, portraying a site reeling from user disaffection and gross mismanagement.

In “Baumgartner,” a professor contends with mortality and the haunting memory of his wife.

In “Be Ready When the Luck Happens,” the TV cooking icon asks, “How easy is that?” The answer? Not very.

In “Bear Witness,” Ross Halperin tells the story of two men who went from idealists to pragmatists.

A massive, mysterious grizzly takes on symbolic weight in Julia Phillips’s moody and affecting second novel.

In Callan Wink’s new novel, two brothers struggling to make ends meet are forced to turn to shady ventures.

The micro becomes macro in Tal Danino’s surreal, mesmerizing photographs of bacteria.

Zach Williams makes his impressive debut with an unnerving and surreal collection of stories.