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“A Truce That Is Not Peace,” the Canadian novelist Miriam Toews’s first nonfiction book since 2001, is a discursive reflection on her father’s and sister’s suicides, 10 years apart.

In “A Walk in the Park,” Kevin Fedarko recounts a trek-of-a-lifetime that becomes a nightmare in one of America’s most stunning sites. At least he can laugh about it.

In her engrossing book “A Wilder Shore,” Camille Peri tells the story of R.L.S. and his American wife, Fanny Van de Grift.

In “A Woman I Know,” Mary Haverstick discovers that the subject of her documentary may have once been a key player in Cold War espionage.

“A Woman of Pleasure,” Kiyoko Murata’s first novel to be translated into English, explores the world of sex work in early-20th-century Japan.

In Nicholas Day’s “A World Without Summer,” Mount Tambora provides a warning about climate change and the inspiration for “Frankenstein.”

Robert Glück’s “About Ed” recounts his relationship with the artist Ed Aulerich-Sugai.

What happens when two American women attempt to help the people of Saigon? In Alice McDermott’s new novel, the answer is complicated.

The author’s Southern Reach trilogy, which began with “Annihilation” in 2014, now has a fourth installment, a prequel.

In “Abundance,” Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson prod fellow liberals to think beyond their despair over Trump’s return to power.