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

“Riverwork,” by Lisa Robertson, considers the lost history of the Bièvre and the lives of working women once linked to it.

Set in a rural town in Indonesia, this tautly written novel, that begins with a boy’s gleeful acts of rebellion, is a sobering meditation on power,...

A new book by Jayne Anne Phillips, a Pulitzer-winning novelist, recalling her childhood is a bittersweet triumph.

“Men Like Ours,” a novel by Bindu Bansinath, follows an immigrant family through a community crisis.

The worldly men of the cloth in Héctor Abad’s new novel find divinity both inside and outside the church.

Kathryn Stockett’s prodigious second novel, “The Calamity Club,” brings together an unlikely group of spinsters, sex workers and orphans in...

In a new novel told in interlinked stories, Dylan Landis revisits a dauntless family she has written about since 2009.

Séamas O’Reilly’s new novel is a boisterous sendup of “prestige” media and its distortion of Northern Ireland’s complex past.

Fonda Lee’s “cyberpunk samurai in space” novel follows a sword-wielding warrior trying to finish one last job.