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An infamous 1993 siege provides the backdrop for Bret Anthony Johnston’s novel about star-crossed lovers.

In Soma Mei Sheng Frazier’s debut novel, “Off the Books,” a Chinese American college student chauffeurs a handsome and suspicious client from California to New York.

Our columnist on vacation-ready reads.

“Tree. Table. Book” and “Not Nothing” feature young people whose friendships with the very old unlock fading memories.

Misery makes for good company in Shalom Auslander’s second memoir, which finds him self-deprecating, drug-dabbling, envious and, oy, middle-aged.

In “A Hunger to Kill,” the former homicide detective Kim Mager recalls a career-defining investigation.

Karla Cornejo Villavicencio’s fiction debut, “Catalina,” brings readers into the life and struggles of a blue-collar brainiac from Ecuador.

A true-crime case that could only happen in Florida is at the heart of Mikita Brottman’s “Guilty Creatures.”

In the memoir “Desperately Seeking Something,” Susan Seidelman’s life is as full of twists, charm and happy endings as one of her iconic movies.

The aggrieved wife who narrates Sarah Manguso’s novel “Liars” may or may not be a reliable source about her monster of a husband.