Sadie Stein

A Japanese tale of “frustrated love and revenge,” and a visual history of bathrooms.

A French Veterinary Psychiatrist Puts Cats on the Couch

A haunted author; haunted dolls.

Daniel M. Lavery’s debut novel collects vignettes from inside the Biedermeier, a second-rate, rapidly waning establishment in midcentury New York City.

In her latest memoir, Clinton takes on student protests, foreign policy and even clown school.

The French novel that was adapted into “Vertigo”; Cameron Crowe’s nonfiction account of a year inside a public high school.

In “Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party,” the science writer Edward Dolnick takes on the 19th-century discovery of dinosaur fossils: “What was it like to try to grapple with an idea that hadn’t occurred to anybody?”

In “All the Rage,” the social historian Virginia Nicholson discusses the changing standards that bedeviled and enthralled a century of women.

Italo Calvino? Not so bad! May Sarton? Pretty good!

These stories of relationship dramas and evolving partnerships will fill the “Couples Therapy”-sized hole in your life with wisdom, schadenfreude and humor — and sometimes all of the above.