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In Francis Spufford’s new novel, “Cahokia Jazz,” a detective must solve the mystery of a staged killing before its repercussions destroy his city’s social and political order.

Andrew O’Hagan’s ambitious state-of-England novel finds a cosseted academic facing up to the hard lives and ethical shortcuts he’d prefer to ignore.

In “Candida Royalle and the Sexual Revolution,” the historian Jane Kamensky presents a raw personal — and cultural — history.

Cynthia Carr’s compassionate biography chronicles the brief, poignant life of the transgender actress Candy Darling, whose “very existence was radical.”

In Lee Lai’s “Cannon,” a lonely, repressed line cook allows herself to be taken advantage of by several people in her life, until she can’t stand it any longer.

A new book by the New Yorker staff writer John Cassidy plumbs more than two centuries’ worth of grievances about our global financial order.

In “Capturing Kahanamoku,” the historian Michael Rossi argues that an ugly pseudoscientific movement had its roots in a beautiful sport.

New accounts of working in a man’s world — and that world’s comeuppance — are long on boldface names and even longer on personality.

“Careless People,” a memoir by a former Facebook executive, portrays feckless company leaders cozying up to authoritarian regimes.

“Carnival of Dreams” collects surrealist photo collages by the Hong Kong artist who once designed graphics for “Monty Python.”