Joumana Khatib

In her vivid epistolary novel “The White Hot,” the Pulitzer-winning playwright Quiara Alegría Hudes explores the long-tail legacy of maternal rage and regret.

“Giving myself freedom” has been Chris Kraus’s goal as a writer, whether in autofiction about her romantic life or in her new and surprising “working-class saga.”

Gabrielle Hamilton’s new memoir, “Next of Kin,” lacks the visceral shock and searing vision of her prior work.

In 1970, the Young Lords, a Puerto Rican civil rights group, seized a hospital in the Bronx — twice.

In a new biography, “It Girl,” the journalist Marisa Meltzer makes a case for the doe-eyed style icon as more than a muse.

Her best-selling romances have made her a new standard-bearer of the genre.

The best-selling author of “The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo” and “Daisy Jones and the Six” takes to the skies for her latest novel.

The scion siblings at the center of Sara Sligar’s Gothic thriller “Vantage Point” try desperately to outrun the calamity that is their inheritance.

In Xenobe Purvis’s novel, “The Hounding,” the atmosphere of paranoia and bloodthirsty groupthink in 18th-century England might feel uncomfortably familiar.

A novel of adolescent friendship; a brooding celebrity memoir.