Catherine Lacey?s new novel follows a polarizing artist through a fractured country.

Who?s really in charge of our online behavior? No one, David Auerbach argues in ?Meganets.?

In her debut novel, ?The Nursery,? Szilvia Molnar paints an honest, frightening and claustrophobic picture of new motherhood.

New romance novels brim with shining, seductive, beautifully crafted sentences.

In ?The People?s Hospital,? Ricardo Nuila explores the ways in which a space for those stranded by the American health care system serves as an unlikely model.

Watch for reality-bending explorations of time and space, a Western horror novel from Victor LaValle and new fiction from Han Kang. Plus: Tom Hanks (yes, that Tom Hanks) releases his debut novel.

Gilbert Cruz talks to Book Review staff members about the books they?ve been enjoying lately.

From Pomplamoose to MXMS to Taylor Swift, this best-selling author?s playlist is tailored to all the moods in ?She Is a Haunting.?

New memoirs, a landmark biography of Martin Luther King, Jr., a look at the woman who helped halt the rise of a K.K.K. leader ? and more.

In Cecile Pin?s debut novel, ?Wandering Souls,? the tale of three young Vietnamese migrants transforms into a larger meditation about how and why refugee stories are told.

The writer of ?The Glass Castle? starts a new chapter with a rip-roaring novel set during Prohibition.

In her new novel, ?Biography of X,? Lacey dreams up a larger-than-life, narcissistic artist, and rewrites American history to tell her story.

In Mona Simpson?s new novel, ?Commitment,? a precariously functioning family fractures under the pressure of mental illness. Or does it?

Actors were two weeks into rehearsals when the show, which was set to star the Tony-winning actress Adrienne Warren, was postponed indefinitely.

Before her, guitarists played the blues, and mostly sat down doing it. Sister Rosetta Tharpe stepped out.

The artist Didier William envisions new releases by Victor LaValle, Mona Simpson and more.

Sentenced as a teenager to 15 years for ?unlawful assembly,? Abdelrahman ElGendy started recording the abuses of prison life. The idea of someday publishing his memoir gave him a reason to live.

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.

The show, scheduled to open in April at the James Earl Jones Theater, was adapted from Emma Donoghue?s best-selling 2010 novel.

In ?Still Life With Bones,? Alexa Hagerty recounts her training in the science of forensic exhumation at mass grave sites in Guatemala and Argentina ? and what such work means for the families of victims.

?Certain men are constitutionally incapable of reading one of the greatest novels ever written,? says the author, whose new novel is ?Commitment.?

This poem is a heartbreaker for all who know or will know soon enough what it is like to once have been ?young and desirous? and to be those things no more.

In Joyce Carol Oates?s ?48 Clues Into the Disappearance of My Sister,? a troubled, resentful younger sibling describes the long-ago events.

A new account of the John Birch Society by Matthew Dallek charts its history ? and outsize influence on the contemporary Republican Party.

To love Miami is to accept that it is a city in flux. Jonathan Escoffery, one of its writers, recommends books that help shape the Florida metropolis.

A selection of recently published books.

An author has a theory that the artist?s mother, Caterina, was kidnapped as a girl in the Caucasus area of Central Asia.

The dozens of books for young readers that she wrote and illustrated had a knack for finding ?the wondrous in the mundane.?

His sagas of the Revolution and the Civil War sold tens of millions of copies, were adapted for TV and put him in the pantheon of big-name authors.

Ann Napolitano toiled in obscurity for years. Novels went unpublished; agents turned her down. She found recognition with ?Dear Edward.? Then came the call: ?Hello Beautiful? was the 100th pick for what is arguably the most influential book club in the world.

In ?Still Life With Bones,? the anthropologist Alexa Hagerty describes how she learned to see the dead with a forensic eye ? and to listen to the living.

In ?How to Think Like a Woman,? Regan Penaluna, a scholar who left the field, takes it to task for its historical misogyny and persistent sexism.

In ?Truth and Repair,? her follow-up to 1992?s ?Trauma and Recovery,? the psychiatrist Judith Herman argues that healing is more than a ?private, individual matter.?

In Esther Yi?s weird and wondrous ?Y/N,? a bored young woman in thrall to a boy band buys a one-way ticket to Seoul.

In Christopher Bollen?s novel ?The Lost Americans,? a New Yorker seeks answers about her brother?s sudden death abroad.

In ?The Real Work,? the longtime New Yorker staff writer dissects the process of mastering new skills by acquiring some himself.

In Dolki Min?s debut novel, ?Walking Practice,? an extraterrestrial who crash-lands on Earth shows what it means to feel out of place in one?s body and its surroundings.

?Heart Sutra? focuses on faith under state control.

Filippo Bernardini has been accused by the government of stealing over 1,000 book manuscripts. In court filings, he said he was motivated not by money but by a love of reading.

In ?The Dog of the North,? Elizabeth McKenzie maps the zany travels of an injury-prone clan with a hole at its center.

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