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In his new novel, “Trondheim,” the author Cormac James explores the terrible dread and peculiar quality of watching over a loved one in the hospital.

Carla Kaplan’s biography “Troublemaker” focuses on the fierce political commitments of the journalist best known for “The American Way of Death.”

Two new books explore the liberal struggle against the illiberal currents that have plagued American progress.

The lexicographer Kory Stamper’s “True Color” is a sneakily insightful philosophical treatise on what it means to define anything at all.

Her new memoir, “True Crime,” traces how she survived a Southern Gothic upbringing to emerge as one of the world’s most famous thriller writers.

“True Nature,” a new biography, chronicles the many lives and pursuits of the writer Peter Matthiessen.

Our reviewer read these stories on a train, as the world rolled by out the window.

Access to the late rapper’s journals gives Staci Robinson’s authorized biography a rare intimacy, without delving deeply into his music.

Andrew X. Pham’s first novel, “Twilight Territory,” imagines an unlikely romance during a nation’s fight for independence.

In “Two Women Living Together,” the authors reflect on the joys of platonic cohabitation.