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In a new memoir, Geoff Dyer reflects how seemingly trivial moments and objects of childhood end up playing an outsize role in our lives.

Two new books look at how horses and primates helped each other grow from skittish little mammals to conquerors of the world.

In his riotous new novel, “Hope,” Andrew Ridker finds the humor in a family’s plummet from grace.

Lock the windows and bolt the doors before picking up Paul Tremblay’s “Horror Movie.”

Marcy Dermansky’s novel “Hot Air” plunges two couples — one old, one new; one rich, one not — into the deep end, together.

Kelsey Norris’s “House Gone Quiet” and Justin C. Key’s “The World Wasn’t Ready for You” share an interest in the ways that being bound shapes our understanding of freedom.

In “House of Bone and Rain,” Gabino Iglesias sets a supernatural revenge fantasy against the approach of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico.

The Substack pundit Fredrik deBoer and the political scientist Yascha Mounk feel that liberal ideologues and “woke” pretenders have marred American life.

An incisive new book, “How Sondheim Can Change Your Life,” examines the extraordinary career of the master of the musical.

In “How the World Eats,” the philosopher Julian Baggini grapples with “everything that affects and is affected by” our comestibles.