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In her novel “Say Hello to My Little Friend,” Jennine Capó Crucet explores existential questions of isolation and belonging through two unlikely figures.

Lauren Elkin’s first novel, “Scaffolding,” traces the multiple infidelities of two Parisian couples a generation apart.

In H.M. Bouwman’s wise and heartbreaking “Scattergood,” the shadow of the Holocaust reaches a farm girl trying to help her ailing friend.

The German writer Michael Lentz gives it a shot in “Schattenfroh,” stretching the limits of fiction in the process.

John Adams reviews “Schoenberg: Why He Matters,” in which Harvey Sachs explores the artistic, academic and spiritual life of a 20th-century cultural giant.

In “Screen People,” Megan Garber looks at how we all became famous for 15 minutes.

“Searches,” by Vauhini Vara, is both a memoir and a critical study of our digital selves.

In Benjamin Wood’s atmospheric novel “Seascraper,” recently longlisted for the Booker, a visitor brings the big world to a small fishing village.

Yuri Herrera’s novel “Season of the Swamp” portrays the antebellum South through the eyes of a humbled leader in exile.

As seen through the gimlet eye of the New York Times cultural critic Amanda Hess, millennial parenting is anything but natural.