Emily Eakin

Threats, real and imagined, loom in the lives of restive New Yorkers.

In stories sprung from the rural Midwest, women draw on their deepest strengths.

Peter Ho Davies’s four-part novel “The Fortunes” summons key faces and events in the Chinese-American story.

In “Interior States,” Megan O’Gieblyn reconsiders her evangelical upbringing, and in “What if This Were Enough?” Heather Havrilesky renounces the “enforced cheer” of American culture.

Marie Benedict writes books inspired by women whose achievements have been overlooked by history, including Einstein’s first wife and the film star and inventor Hedy Lamarr.

Tim Alberta speaks to us about “American Carnage,” his gripping new account of the Republican Party.

“The Great Pretender,” the new book by the author of “Brain on Fire,” is another medical detective story, but this time the person at the heart of the mystery is a doctor, not a patient.

Is romance the most scripted human experience there is?

In “We Keep the Dead Close,” Becky Cooper explores a killing she heard rumors about when she was a student, at a school where such crimes have become a rarefied literary genre.

In “The Sleeping Beauties,” Suzanne O’Sullivan examines those poorly understood conditions that fall at the tangled intersection of body and mind, like mysterious outbreaks of mass illness.