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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 “Clean,” a domestic worker for a wealthy family tells her side of a tragic story.

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.

“Collision of Power,” Martin Baron’s memoir of his tenure as the paper’s executive editor, is a gripping chronicle of politics and journalism in a period of instability for both.

A new biography of Luis Alvarez captures the details but misses the drama in the career of a scientist whose work ranged from the Manhattan Project to the death of the dinosaurs.

In “Colored Television,” by Danzy Senna, a struggling writer in a mixed-race family is seduced by the taste of luxury that comes with house-sitting.

In her second novel, “Come and Get It,” Kiley Reid uses chatty college students to make substantive statements about consumerism.

“Coming and Going” is the photographer Jim Goldberg’s visual memoir of three generations in his family, from 1980 to today.