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In her debut novel, “The School for Good Mothers,” Jessamine Chan imagines a future where parents (mostly women) get sent to government-run reform school.

In this wistful movie, the French writer and Nobel laureate revisits her life with help from her son, who’s also the director.

In this wistful movie, the French writer and Nobel laureate revisits her life with help from her son, who’s also the director.

The birth of a pioneering Black dance company comes alive in Karen Valby’s “The Swans of Harlem.”

The book is often described as the world’s first novel and a touchstone of Japanese literature. But some of its themes, including its take on gender and power, have echoed over centuries.

Brendan Slocumb’s debut novel is a musical bildungsroman cleverly contained within a literary thriller.

An excerpt from “The Vixen,” by Francine Prose

Her poem “The Hill We Climb” is now a commemorative hardcover edition.

The judge on “The Great British Baking Show,” whose new book is “Bliss on Toast,” recommends “The Joy of Cooking” along with M.F.K. Fisher and Elizabeth David: “Both the latter are a real pleasure to read.”

Kellyanne Conway, Mike Pence and William Barr have book deals. That is raising new challenges for publishers trying to balance ideological lines with a desire to continue representing the political spectrum.