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“A Woman of Pleasure,” Kiyoko Murata’s first novel to be translated into English, explores the world of sex work in early-20th-century Japan.

In Nicholas Day’s “A World Without Summer,” Mount Tambora provides a warning about climate change and the inspiration for “Frankenstein.”

Robert Glück’s “About Ed” recounts his relationship with the artist Ed Aulerich-Sugai.

What happens when two American women attempt to help the people of Saigon? In Alice McDermott’s new novel, the answer is complicated.

In “Abundance,” Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson prod fellow liberals to think beyond their despair over Trump’s return to power.

In “Adventures in Volcanoland,” the geologist Tamsin Mather takes us on a global and historical investigation of her life’s passion.

In her new novel, “After Annie,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist shows how a family pieces itself back together after monumental loss.

The standout essays in Megan Marshall’s “After Lives” recall her troubled father and the fate of a high school classmate.

In Jonathan Evison’s new novel, “Again and Again,” a curmudgeonly old man in an elder-care facility finds an unlikely connection as he recounts the stories of his past lives.

In “Against Technoableism,” Ashley Shew argues that it’s not the individuals who need “fixing,” it’s their environment.