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In two new books, the historians Adrian Goldsworthy and Tom Holland portray an empire that knew how to hold back from a fight and make room for upstarts.

The journalist McKay Coppins takes stock of the politician and former presidential candidate’s career as he prepares to retire from elective office.

In Stuart Nadler’s novel “Rooms for Vanishing,” four characters search for and grieve one another across separate timelines.

In “Rope,” Tim Queeney makes a case for the humble material as the tie that binds human history.

Mona Awad’s new novel, “Rouge,” indicts the quest to be fairest of them all.

In Kevin Wilson’s novel “Run for the Hills,” half siblings drive cross-country searching for the father who abandoned them.

The 1991 novel turns a private disturbance into bracing social commentary.

“Ruth,” by Kate Riley, is an absorbing novel about a woman torn between curiosity and purity.

For her new book, “Salvage,” the Trinidadian-born writer Dionne Brand rereads classic English novels, teasing out evidence of the ravages of colonialism.

“Same as It Ever Was,” by Claire Lombardo, is a 500-page, multigenerational examination of the ties that bind.