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Jo Hamya’s novel tells the story of the fraught relationship between a self-absorbed British writer and his playwright daughter.

A new book pays tribute to the female investors, curators, collectors and more without whom the Museum of Modern Art in New York likely would not exist.

A new photo book pays tribute to the female investors, curators, collectors and more without whom the Museum of Modern Art in New York likely would not exist.

A graphic novel makes a powerful case that if these two men had never met, 20th-century pop culture might have taken an entirely different course.

In a new novel by Olga Tokarczuk, guests at a mountain retreat face a dark and cryptic threat.

Her new novel, “Intermezzo,” considers love in its various permutations.

More than 25 years later, the pen of another name meets a new generation of wordsmiths.

In her lively “Book and Dagger,” the historian Elyse Graham rescues a cast of scholar-spies from obscurity.

Jesse Ball’s Kafkaesque novel imagines a legal system that deploys a shockingly personal device.

In “Undivided,” the political scientist Hahrie Han follows members of a mostly white congregation that resolved to fight bias and promote racial justice.