Dwight Garner

Marlon James’s story of gay experience and murderous homophobia in Jamaica is a maximalist’s banquet — and the Booker Prize winner’s finest book yet.

Two career-spanning essay collections, from Nik Cohn and Jerry Stahl, revel in life’s margins and recapture auras past.

In his new book, Joby Warrick traces the rise and fall of Carlos the Jackal, the notorious terrorist-for-hire.

The final installment of his Harlem crime trilogy is full of heists, cultural shifts and nostalgia for 1980s New York.

Food books by chefs and celebrities arrive by the landslide. “Voices From the Kitchen” highlights workers who get far less attention.

Her first collection of short fiction, “It Will Come Back to You,” is threaded with erudition but never pretentious.

In a sobering new book, Annie Jacobsen considers the potentially civilization-ending impacts of biological war.

“The Midnight Special” offers an unconventional cultural history with profiles of five artists influenced by the carceral system.

“The Emergency Playbook” is a disaster preparation guide that emphasizes community rather than lone-hero fantasies.

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