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In “How to Be a Renaissance Woman,” the historian Jill Burke explores the aesthetic expectations of an era — and just how they were achieved. (Recipes included.)

A new book by Morgan Falconer argues that artists working today should take inspiration from Futurism, Dada and other art movements that sought to reinvent the field.

Amy Larocca’s book “How to Be Well” dives deep into the global obsession with so-called health, and the companies that have profited from creating it.

In Elaine Feeney’s latest book, a child’s grief-driven engineering dream connects a handful of isolated citizens in a small Irish town.

Dennard Dayle’s satirical new book, “How to Dodge a Cannonball,” follows a white flag-bearer pretending to be a Black soldier.

“How to End a Story” collects three volumes of the Australian novelist’s self-conscious, sometimes harrowing journals.

Nathan Newman’s uproarious “How to Leave the House” follows a haughty young Englishman looking for a missing package and the endearing neighbors he meets on the hunt.

In the memoir “How to Lose Your Mother,” Molly Jong-Fast recalls a tumultuous upbringing as the only child of the feminist writer Erica Jong.

In her second novel, Hila Blum plumbs the depths of one of the most complicated relationships known to women.

In “How to Say Babylon,” Safiya Sinclair recalls her ascetic Jamaican upbringing and the literature that opened up her world.