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Laszlo Krasznahorkai’s single-sentence tale unearths the catastrophe lurking inside the mundane.

Sonia Purnell’s biography of Pamela Harriman argues that the Democratic stalwart and former ambassador was more than the men she cultivated.

Yuval Noah Harari’s study of human communication may be anything but brief, but if you can make it to the second half, you’ll be both entertained and scared.

A 1966 novel captures a publishing world full of chronic malcontents, strategic lunches and ideas that mattered.

Sebastian Smee’s “Paris in Ruins” follows the lives and careers of Manet, Degas and Berthe Morisot during the Franco-Prussian fiasco.

Richard Flanagan’s new book progresses like a nuclear chain reaction, moving from personal narrative to world events.

Tony Tulathimutte’s new stories center on the young, alienated, unloved people you can’t stop watching.

In “She-Wolves,” the historian Paulina Bren recounts the uphill — and ongoing — battle of women to break into the finance industry.

In Katherine Packert Burke’s debut novel, a woman is haunted by change while grappling with the death of a friend.

In “Stolen Pride,” Arlie Russell Hochschild explores the emotional lives of Americans who vote for Donald Trump.