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Nadine Gordimer’s stories; Margaret Atwood’s sketches.

A novel of adolescent friendship; a brooding celebrity memoir.

A spare elegy; a weird journey.

A Laurie Colwin classic and a modern chef’s posthumous memoir.

A Scott and Zelda roman à clef; a photo collection of 1920s Paris.

A Japanese tale of “frustrated love and revenge,” and a visual history of bathrooms.

A maid resists her employers; citizens resist their country.

A memoir of Italy; notes on Canada.

A stroll around the city with a great stylist; a comic novel of love and real estate.

An editor recommends an Irish novel about a banker in trouble and a Swiss novel about schoolgirl obsession.