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To write “Paper Girl,” Beth Macy returned to Urbana, Ohio, documenting the descent of a once flourishing town into entrenched poverty and acrimony.

In “Race Against Terror,” Tapper makes a courtroom drama out of the strange case of a jihadi fighter who turned himself in.

“Shadow Ticket” follows a dancing private eye on the hunt for a missing cheese heiress. It gets even wackier from there.

In “Splendid Liberators,” Joe Jackson presents the U.S. wars in Cuba and the Philippines as part of a misguided project to spread freedom across the world.

In “The Conservative Frontier,” Jeff Roche makes the case that the modern Republican Party was born in West Texas.

The author of “I Love Dick” returns with a novel that combines autobiography and true crime.

In “The Nine Lives of Christopher Columbus,” Matthew Restall explores the seemingly immortal reputation of one of history’s most projected-on figures.

The celebrated German novelist Jenny Erpenbeck considers the relics of an earlier age in a newly translated essay collection.

In an unusual act of literary synergy, two vibrant coming-of-age tales with the same title have arrived one week apart.

The devil, Prada-clad or not, stays on the periphery of Caroline Palmer’s “Workhorse,” a novel about an ambitious assistant at a Vogue-like publication.