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Our columnist reviews May’s most chilling releases.

New books by Emily Ruth Verona, Jenny Kiefer, Christopher Golden and Tlotlo Tsamaase riff on classic tropes and deliver thrilling scares.

New books by Juno Dawson, Emma Mieko Candon and Alexander Darwin.

In new collections by Yiyun Li, Claire Keegan, Alexandra Chang and Lore Segal, interpersonal bonds are created and destroyed.

The winner of this year’s National Book Award in fiction has published several collections of poems. Our critic takes a look.

Emily Wilson’s translation of the “Iliad” brings Homer’s great war story to rousing new life.

New books by Bora Chung, Rafael Frumkin and Laird Hunt explore the chaotic intricacies of being alive.

In its first half-century, Ms. magazine upended norms, disrupted the print world and made trouble. It was a start.

In “A Better World,” a family hoping to escape their dangerous reality gets invited to an exclusive town only to discover that it’s not as peaceful as it seems.

Caroline Crampton shares her own worries in “A Body Made of Glass,” a history of hypochondria that wonders whether newfangled technology drives us crazier.