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In “The Anthropologists,” Aysegul Savas celebrates the “unremarkable grace” of a couple’s ordinary days. It’s enchanting.

Karen Russell’s “The Antidote” is set in 1930s Nebraska, when the promising days of the American frontier are over, and white settlers reckon with the consequences of overfarming.

In “The Anxious Generation,” Jonathan Haidt says we’re failing children — and takes a firm stand against tech.

Across Korea and Canada and the Midwest, these lonely protagonists guide us through ennui, delusion and even the afterlife.

Stuart E. Eizenstat has served half a dozen U.S. presidents and made a lot of friends. In “The Art of Diplomacy,” he lays out some of their teachable moments.

Peter Schjeldahl’s final book collects the essays and reviews he wrote in the years after a cancer diagnosis.

In “The Art Spy,” Michelle Young shines new light on the heroic French curator Rose Valland.

In the debut novel “The Band,” a burned-out pop idol meets a disillusioned professor, raising the question: What if the dangers of fame resemble white-collar ennui?

In “The Bars Are Ours,” Lucas Hilderbrand offers a transcontinental look at a half-century of queer nightlife in America.

In Paul Murray’s new novel, “The Bee Sting,” an Irish family faces economic ruin after the 2008 financial crash. And that’s just the start of their troubles.