Alexandra Jacobs

Three new stories, including a campus-set novella, are the heart of “The Eleventh Hour,” a book that strains to recall the author’s richest work.

In “When All the Men Wore Hats,” Susan Cheever considers her father as a writer and a role model, recounting the stories behind his celebrated stories.

Virginia Roberts Giuffre’s posthumous “Nobody’s Girl” doesn’t break political news, but might break your heart.

In the autofictional “Death and the Gardener,” the Bulgarian writer Georgi Gospodinov remembers an ordinary man ennobled by a love of the land.

A crackling new biography captures the formidable personality and often eerie writings of the “Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” creator Muriel Spark.

Teeming with vivid characters across several continents, “The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny” traces a hesitant romance that challenges tradition and loss.

In “What’s With Baum?,” an anxious, jealous and thrice-married writer finds himself stranded in a culture that wants more “schmaltz,” less “wisdom.”

The prizewinning novelist’s unsparing memoir, “Mother Mary Comes to Me,” captures the eventful life and times of her mother, a driven educator and imperfect inspiration.

Demystifying the Life of an Artist, the Sally Mann Way

Amy Bloom’s “I’ll Be Right Here” zigzags between Paris and Poughkeepsie as it shares the saga of Algerian siblings and their chosen family.