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“The Spoiled Heart,” by Sunjeev Sahota, contrasts race and class struggles in the story of a man’s downfall.

“The Stolen Coast,” by Dwyer Murphy, is a heist novel involving rough diamonds, crooked lawyers and masters of the double cross.

True to the promise of its title, “The Storm We Made” kicks up a weather system of epic proportions, ranging from military terror during World War II to domestic warmth.

In Karen Thompson Walker’s latest novel, “The Strange Case of Jane O.,” a patient’s unusual symptoms suggest metaphysical mysteries.

Ariel Dorfman’s novel “The Suicide Museum” uses the controversy around a president’s death to examine personal and collective grief.

Antonio Di Benedetto’s characters are repellent and constantly frustrated. Why are they so captivating?

Two exuberant new books chronicle the heyday of New York City’s criminal underworld on the Lower East Side.

In “The Ten Year Affair,” the novelist Erin Somers splits her narrative into two parallel realities, one of which imagines a young mother’s infidelity.

In Hiromi Kawakami’s new novel, a young woman responds to her husband’s infidelities in creative ways.

The third novel in the author’s Morning Star series considers how the extreme can engulf the everyday.