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A Dutch novelist envisions the creation of “Frankenstein,” Shelley’s most famous work.

In a new book, the historian Kim A. Wagner investigates the slaughter by U.S. troops of nearly 1,000 people in the Philippines in 1906 — an atrocity long overlooked in this country.

In “McNamara at War,” the brothers William and Philip Taubman probe the mind of a Harvard Business School technocrat who tried to overhaul the American military.

“The Reign of Marvel Studios” captures how movies based on comic-book properties came to dominate pop culture. At least until now.

In “Means of Control” and “The Sentinel State,” modern governments wield high-tech snooping gear while relying on old methods of social surveillance.

In “Medicine River,” Mary Annette Pember examines a national shame — and the trauma it wrought in her own family.

Slim and full of obfuscations, her memoir touches on business ventures and raising her son, but barely grapples with the mysteries of her marriage.

In “Meltdown,” Duncan Mavin describes the grand rise and ignominious fall of a financial behemoth.

In “Memorial Days,” Geraldine Brooks retreats to an island off Australia hoping to pick up the pieces after the sudden death of her husband.

Orhan Pamuk’s illustrated notebooks lead us to the great writer’s mind, then ask us to remain outside.