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The new novel by Bernhard Schlink, the author of “The Reader,” explores the legacies of World War II and reunification in contemporary Germany.

With the first volume of a new series and an instructional book on magic, the “Watchmen” author wants an imaginary revolution.

In “The Great White Bard,” Farah Karim-Cooper maintains that close attention to race, and racism, will only deepen engagement with the playwright’s canon.

In “The Greatest Capitalist Who Ever Lived,” Ralph Watson McElvenny and Marc Wortman show how Oedipal battles fueled the company’s technological triumphs in the 1960s and beyond.

In “The Gunfighters,” the journalist Bryan Burrough offers a lively look at the legends and myths of the Wild West.

In “The Halt During the Chase,” by Rosemary Tonks — first published in 1972, and newly reissued — a young woman goes in search of herself.

“The Hammer” offers portraits of organizing efforts from around the country at a time when the future of union power has reached an inflection point.

McKenzie Funk’s “The Hank Show” follows the improbable career of one man, and the surveillance state he helped create.

Naoise Dolan’s “The Happy Couple” follows 20-something Dubliners hurtling toward the altar, stubbornly clinging to their self-delusions that this is what they want.

In “The Haves and Have-Yachts,” the New Yorker writer Evan Osnos presents an urbane set of profiles in excess.