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In her new book, “Miracles and Wonder,” Elaine Pagels tries to find the man behind the faith.

Katie Kitamura’s thrilling new novel, “Audition,” examines the performances we put on for others — and exposes the shams that underpin them.

“Thrilled to Death” collects many of Lynne Tillman’s spiky short stories, where dreams tell the truth and glamour mingles with the mundane.

In “Children of Radium,” Joe Dunthorne explores the absurdity of family histories and his own clan’s complicated past.

T Bone Burnett reviews Ian Leslie’s “John & Paul,” which explores the partnership of “two extraordinarily gifted young men.”

Interested in dipping your toe into the genre? The author Leigh Bardugo recommends books that can get you started.

Jon Hickey’s book imagines a cutthroat campaign for control of a Native American reservation.

In “The Six,” Steven Schwankert tells an amazing story of survival, slander and mystery.

“City of Fiction,” a novel by Yu Hua, follows a man on a search for his missing wife amid bandits and warlords.

He bounced back big time with editorships at Spy and Vanity Fair, a glamorous life he details in a new memoir.