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The Russian opposition leader, who died in an Arctic penal colony earlier this year, tells the story of his struggle to wrest his country back from President Vladimir Putin.

In W.B. Laughead’s 1916 logging industry pamphlet, a minor Midwestern folk hero underwent a major growth spurt.

A new biography of Tim O’Brien examines his formative time at war and the esteemed literary career that followed.

For decades, Juan Rulfo’s novel, “Pedro Páramo,” has cast an uncanny spell on writers. A new translation may bring it broader appeal.

In Eliza Clark’s novel “Penance,” a 16-year-old becomes more fascinating in death than she was in life.

Emily Cockayne’s “Penning Poison,” a history of anonymous letters, reveals the ways we’ve been torturing one another, verbally, for centuries.

Isle McElroy’s second novel, “People Collide,” puts a pair of bored newlyweds in each other’s shoes.

In “People Like Us,” Jason Mott tells a darkly comic tale of two Black writers haunted by gun violence.

Vincenzo Latronico’s novel “Perfection” explores the capital of Europe’s expat scene in its heyday.

Laurent Binet’s novel “Perspective(s)” begins with an artist lying dead in a Florentine chapel.