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“The Deadline” collects 46 essays on subjects ranging from Herman Melville and Jane Franklin to feminism and A.I.

In a new book, Cara Fitzpatrick traces the rise of the movement to expand public funding for privately operated institutions.

Laura Trethewey’s “The Deepest Map” explores the new world of oceanic exploration — and its dangers.

In “The Demon of Unrest,” present-day political strife inspires a dramatic portrait of the run-up to the deadliest war on American soil.

In “The Deserters,” Mathias Énard weaves the story of a lone soldier with that of a brilliant scholar.

In Ia Genberg’s “The Details,” the unnamed narrator spends the duration of an illness reflecting on her bygone relationships.

“The Devil’s Best Trick,” Randall Sullivan’s in-depth occult investigation, is not for the easily frightened.

Sarah Ogilvie’s sprightly “The Dictionary People” pays tribute to the explorers, suffragists, murderers and ordinary citizens who helped create the Oxford English Dictionary.

A new novel considers the perplexing life and times of G.W. Pabst, the Austrian filmmaker who worked in the shadow of the Reich.

In the Swedish author Moa Herngren’s latest novel, “The Divorce,” a middle-aged mother is about to head off on a family holiday in the Baltic when she realizes her husband isn’t coming.