Spring is on its way, a perfect opportunity to refresh your bookshelves. If you are looking for new books to add to your ...

“It is a thing the essay loves: to tend, carefully, painstakingly, to the fact of the world,” A. Kendra Greene writes in “No Less Strange or Wonderful,” her new book of essays.

Fancy an incisive essay collection that explores K-pop fandom? Novels on sex, money, and climate violence? A memoir of divorce?

By chance, Romney, a rare-books collector, comes upon a 1778 novel by a woman who turns out to have been one of Jane Austen’s ...