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The children’s author used comic-strip-like panels to explore the joys and struggles of workaday British life. With irreverent wit, he also interrogated Father Christmas and nuclear war.
Elizabeth Hand’s “Hokuloa Road” brims with menace: vine-choked cliff-top highways, aviaries filled with strange birds, tanks of poisonous sea urchins.
In the new biography “Path Lit by Lightning,” David Maraniss details the enormous odds that a Native American hero had to overcome.
A selection of recently published books.
In “The Women Could Fly,” women are uniquely capable of magic, which leads the government to strictly monitor and regulate them.
In “Life on the Mississippi,” Rinker Buck takes a lengthy river trip to examine a uniquely American history.
In this excerpt from “Shy: The Alarmingly Outspoken Memoirs of Mary Rodgers,” a Broadway musical is born at a summer camp.
In a quest to explore her own sexuality, Nona Willis Aronowitz hit the sheets — and the books.
In “Retail Gangster,” Gary Weiss explores the life and sketchy business practices of Eddie Antar, whose commercials are the stuff of legend.
Mark Braude’s biography of a bohemian icon makes a case for Kiki de Montparnasse as an artist in her own right.
Two eerie story collections depict the mundanity of human suffering.
Lynne Tillman’s taut memoir of caring for an aging parent runs an emotional gamut.
In “Nineteen Reservoirs,” Lucy Sante recounts the history of a vast network that supplies more than a billion gallons of water a day.
His research — on Adams, Truman and so much more — was deep, his writing was lively, and his narrator’s voice in documentary films was familiar to millions.
Mr. Trump once asked his chief of staff why his military leadership couldn’t be more like the German generals who had reported to Adolf Hitler, according to an excerpt.
Johanna Mo’s new novel, “The Shadow Lily,” is a solid police procedural that brims with twists, turns and surprising revelations.
In “Three Assassins,” the Japanese author’s latest thriller to be translated into English, a corporate assassin isn’t far from a corporate automaton.
He served loyally during the 9/11 attacks and Iraq invasion. But in a 2005 memoir, he faulted the “conception and execution” of the Iraq war.
In “Diary of a Void,” Emi Yagi unravels the limitless ironies of maternity.
His portfolio included the adventures of Richie Rich and graphic treatments of 9/11 and torture by the C.I.A. He also wrote dozens of songs.
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