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A massive, mysterious grizzly takes on symbolic weight in Julia Phillips’s moody and affecting second novel.

In Callan Wink’s new novel, two brothers struggling to make ends meet are forced to turn to shady ventures.

The micro becomes macro in Tal Danino’s surreal, mesmerizing photographs of bacteria.

Zach Williams makes his impressive debut with an unnerving and surreal collection of stories.

In Marie-Helene Bertino’s remarkable funny-sad novel, the young visitor and her mother find the means to persevere in the aisles of a cosmetics store.

A new biography sheds light on her humble beginnings and prolific, genre-defining career.

A new biography sheds light on her humble beginnings and prolific, genre-defining career.

With a weekly newsletter and plenty of charm, the left-wing writer Claud Cockburn became a crucial polemical voice of the 20th century.

In “Beyond the Big Lie,” Bill Adair worries that the world of spin and fabrication in America has gotten out of hand.

In his novel “Beyond the Door of No Return,” David Diop explores the secret life of Michel Adanson, who cataloged the natural world during the Enlightenment.