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In “The Upside-Down World,” Benjamin Moser roams the galleries of the Netherlands in search of clues to the artists’ biographies.

“The Upstairs Delicatessen,” a memoir by Dwight Garner of The New York Times, traces his life’s twin passions.

In “The Uptown Local,” Cory Leadbeater describes his years as the late writer’s assistant and companion. Yet the fond portrait reveals more about him than her.

In 2003 the Nobel laureate had a torrid romance with Marc Marie, a French acquaintance. In “The Use of Photography,” they deliver a vivid chronicle of their relationship in photos and essays.

“The Vaster Wilds” follows a girl’s escape from a nameless colonial settlement into the unforgiving terrain of America.

Andrew Lipstein’s shrewd novel finds a moneyed Brooklynite so unmoored that he starts to identify with animals he has long overlooked.

Thomas Mallon looks back on the AIDS crisis, the heyday of magazines and an exhilarating city in “The Very Heart of It.”

“The Village Beyond the Mist” may or may not have inspired the Studio Ghibli masterpiece, but it’s transporting nonetheless.

“The Visionaries,” by Wolfram Eilenberger, examines the divergent theories of self and other developed in a time of crisis by Hannah Arendt, Simone de Beauvoir, Ayn Rand and Simone Weil.

A new novel recalls a dark period of El Salvador’s history, as well as Hollywood’s Golden Age and the art salons of Paris.