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“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.

News stories have chronicled the basketball star’s detention in a Russian prison. Here’s her version.

The former labor secretary Robert B. Reich sees “the central struggle of civilization as fighting bullies,” he says in a new memoir.

“Comrade Papa” is told from the perspective of two European arrivals to the West African country, nearly a century apart.

Joy Williams distills much learning — from philosophy, religion and history — into 99 stories about the guy who takes your soul.

Nicolas Mathieu’s novel “Connemara” illuminates a clash of values and visions in contemporary France.