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Solvej Balle’s “On the Calculation of Volume” rethinks the familiar story of the endlessly repeating day.

In “On the Edge,” the election forecaster argues that the gambler’s mind-set has come to define modern life.

In “On the Move,” Abrahm Lustgarten predicts a massive demographic shift in response to an increasingly unlivable world.

The U.C.L.A. sociologist Michael Mann seeks to uncover the causes of war across the globe, from the classical era to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

In “Once Upon a Time,” Elizabeth Beller examines the life and death of the woman who was best known for marrying John F. Kennedy Jr.

Lesa Cline-Ransome’s new novel in verse adds female voices to the late-19th-century Black homesteaders movement.

Omar El Akkad considers American and European responses to mass suffering in his new book.

In Nicola Yoon’s first novel for adults, “One of Our Kind,” a woman finds that a lush California suburb is not what it seems.

Her lucid memoir, “One Way Back,” describes life before, during and after she testified that Brett Kavanaugh had sexually assaulted her in high school.

Across two new books, the ideal of a global free market buckles under pressure from protesters, politicians of all stripes and the Covid pandemic.