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In “The Rulebreaker,” Susan Page pays tribute to a pioneering journalist who survived being both a punchline and an icon.

“Finish What We Started,” by the journalist Isaac Arnsdorf, reports from the front lines of the right-wing movement’s strategy to gain power, from the local level on up.

Alana S. Portero’s debut, “Bad Habit,” follows one woman’s coming-of-age in a blue-collar Madrid neighborhood.

As described by Gabriel Brownstein, the basis for one of Freud’s most famous cases posed as many questions as it answered.

“Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other,” the author’s new collection, ranges from a playful one-act drama set in a lake to short fiction rife with apocalyptic anxiety.

In “The Whole Staggering Mystery,” Sylvia Brownrigg explores her mysterious parent’s past, and finds more than she bargained for.

The editor and essayist Joseph Epstein looks back on his life and career in two new books.

Slim and precious, “Somehow: Thoughts on Love” doesn’t measure up to her best nonfiction.

Justin Taylor’s novel “Reboot” examines the convergence of entertainment, online arcana and conspiracy theory.

In “The Paris Novel,” Ruth Reichl is a glutton for wish fulfillment.