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As Michelle T. King demonstrates in this moving and ambitious biography, Fu Pei-mei was far more than “the Julia Child of Chinese cooking.”

Though it downplays unflattering details, Katherine Bucknell’s big biography hails the 20th-century writer as an early advocate for the “chosen family.”

In her new book, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Eliza Griswold chronicles the fate of an idealistic congregation fractured by internal divisions.

In Temim Fruchter’s debut, “City of Laughter,” a grieving daughter dives into her ancestors’ hidden pasts to find closure and meaning in her own life.

In her exceptional biography, Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson puts the American fashion icon Claire McCardell back in the pantheon.

Anelise Chen’s genre-bending book “Clam Down” sees an insightful metaphor in a text message typo.

The beloved humor columnist looks back on a long career of wit and wisdom in a new memoir.

In her second memoir, the author of “Maid” recounts the struggle of getting educated in America below the poverty line.

In Carys Davies’s latest novel, a financially struggling pastor is dispatched to a remote island to evict its lone resident.

A new biography looks at the decades-long career of an American original who captured the country’s complex moral universe onscreen.