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In her lively “Book and Dagger,” the historian Elyse Graham rescues a cast of scholar-spies from obscurity.

“Book of Lives” offers two distinct versions of the esteemed novelist: “Peggy Nature” and “the brooder.”

From 1940 to 1973, Ursula Nordstrom transformed kids’ books into real art and big business. A new middle grade biography attempts to capture her magic.

In Nic Stone’s new book, “Boom Town,” a dancer at a strip club in Atlanta must search for her peers who have disappeared.

In “Born Equal,” Akhil Reed Amar paints a sprawling portrait of 19th-century America in thrall to its founding moment.

“Born in Flames,” by the historian Bench Ansfield, recounts how the wave of urban arson in the 1970s devastated poor communities while enriching building owners.

Mike Mignola’s “Bowling With Corpses” is full of suspicious shadows and offbeat jokes.

In “Boy From the North Country,” a writer returns home to be with his dying mother and learns some shocking secrets.

In her new book, “Brainwyrms,” Alison Rumfitt reimagines contemporary anti-trans bigotry as a ravenous helminth that causes its hosts to go violently mad.

Gabriel Smith’s shape-shifting debut, “Brat,” cycles through a multiverse of strange possibilities.