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In her first novel since “Americanah,” she draws on a real-life assault case as she follows the lives of three Nigerian women and one of their former housekeepers.

Set in a rapidly warming valley, “Dream State” spans 50 years of a rocky friendship.

Michael Deagler’s first novel follows a young man who is piecing his life back together and trying very hard not to drink.

Leonard S. Marcus brings the wonder of a 1968 snapshot to a new generation.

Pam Muñoz Ryan’s “El Niño” combines magical realism, climate fiction and coming-of-age sports tales.

Walter Isaacson’s biography of the billionaire entrepreneur depicts a mercurial “man-child” with grandiose ambitions and an ego to match.

In “Embers of the Hands,” the historian Eleanor Barraclough looks beyond the soap-opera sagas to those lost in the cracks of history.

In his paean to another age, David Denby studies four icons who defined American culture in the second half of the 20th century.

The classicist Mary Beard examines the excesses and tedium of imperial rule, sorting fact from gossip and tall tales.

Two journalists explore the artificial intelligence company OpenAI and present complementary portraits of its notorious co-founder.