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“Cloudthief,” by Nathaniel Rich, follows a dispirited writer into a scheme to get rich and find romance along the way.

The final installment of his Harlem crime trilogy is full of heists, cultural shifts and nostalgia for 1980s New York.

Julie Buntin’s novel “Famous Men” complicates an old story with questions of ambition and consent.

Jem Calder’s novel, “I Want You to Be Happy,” follows the flailing situationship between two aspiring writers with a 12-year age gap.

In “Journey to Nowhere,” Shiva Naipaul reports on the aftermath of a cult’s disastrous turn away from idealism.

A new book by Michael Blanding chronicles the history of Hobby Lobby and its billionaire founder’s campaign to promote conservative Christian values.

In “The Lost Founder,” the journalist Jesse Wegman looks back at a largely forgotten and singular voice that helped make the United States what it is today.

A new book by the journalist Lauren Collins chronicles the ongoing effects of the violent takeover of Wilmington, N.C., on those living in its aftermath.

In Claire Vaye Watkins’s novel “Yellow Pine,” a single woman having an existential crisis decides now is the time to have a child.

Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.