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Two new books by psychologists explore the roots of group identity, arguing that it is natural and potentially useful — even in polarized times.

Vinson Cunningham’s impressive debut novel finds a watchful campaign aide measuring his ambitions on the trail of a magnetic presidential candidate.

In Rebecca K Reilly’s book, “Greta & Valdin,” two 20-something siblings navigate love, identity and growing up while wading through the maelstrom of contemporary life.

Adam Ehrlich Sachs reveals a society on the verge of cataclysm in his new novel, “Gretel and the Great War.”

In her new memoir, “Grief Is for People,” Sloane Crosley works through the death of a beloved friend and mentor.

A true-crime case that could only happen in Florida is at the heart of Mikita Brottman’s “Guilty Creatures.”

Mo Ogrodnik’s novel, “Gulf,” follows characters from different countries and classes confronting the region’s forced stratification into oppressor and oppressed.

In “Habsburgs on the Rio Grande,” Raymond Jonas’s story of French-backed nation building in Mexico foreshadows the proxy battles of the Cold War.

In the journalist Dan Kois’s new book, “Hampton Heights,” a group of middle-school boys discover magic and frights in an unassuming Milwaukee enclave.

“Hangman,” by Maya Binyam, follows the narrator on a disorienting trip back to his native country.