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In “No Ordinary Assignment,” the correspondent Jane Ferguson is candid about the fears and frustrations that come with her calling.

In “No Ordinary Assignment,” the correspondent Jane Ferguson is candid about the fears and frustrations that come with her calling.

The heroine of Ainslie Hogarth’s “Normal Women” is so desperate to escape the confines of conventional, upper-middle-class womanhood that she turns to a yoga studio that looks a lot like a cult.

In “Normal Women,” Philippa Gregory gives us nine centuries of real-life heroines, murderers, boxers and brides.

Daniel Mason’s novel “North Woods” is a survey of American history told in a hodgepodge of forms and genres.

“Not Even the Dead,” a novel by Juan Gómez Bárcena, is a transhistorical epic with echoes of Cormac McCarthy and Joseph Conrad.

Her lawyers urged that she keep her testimony short. With legal victories in hand, she’s sharing her life story, and what it was like on the stand.

A brief volume of Elspeth Barker’s writings shows off the late novelist’s ability to soothe, shock and find the humor in dark moments.

In Austin Taylor’s novel “Notes on Infinity,” the speed of success prevents undergraduate founders from reflecting on, let alone fixing, an original sin.

Drawn from her previously unpublished reflections on sessions with a therapist, “Notes to John” is at once slightly sordid and utterly fascinating.