The life of Warren Beatty, a man as hungry for artistic control as he was for women.

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Poems that shun trickery and flirt with both beauty and boredom.

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Joseph Stiglitz has harsh words for Obama’s approach to the economic crisis.

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Clare Clark’s tale of a woman sent to Louisiana to marry a colonist she’s never met is told in the spirit of a 19th-century novel.

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Don DeLillo explores the radical manipulation of time in this novel, which brings an Iraq war planner, his daughter and a filmmaker together at a house in the desert.

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This slender mystery novel from Roberto Bolaño presents a surreal vision of prewar Paris.

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An appreciation of Little Richard, one of rock ’n’ roll’s originators.

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This history examines the moral, religious, artistic and political struggles gripping France before and after the Dreyfus Affair.

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The characters in Amy Bloom’s erotically charged, linked stories struggle with love and its loss.

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Louise Erdrich’s new novel is a portrait of an “iconic” marriage on its way to dissolution, and it appears to be seeded with deliberate allusions to her own marriage with the writer Michael Dorris.

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The author of “The Sexual Life of Catherine M.” now turns her attention to the infidelities of her lover and the agony they caused her.

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A Ph.D. candidate watches his professor throw over Matthew Arnold for Yahweh in this novel about the conflict between faith and reason.

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The downtown rocker Patti Smith’s memoir of her early career and her relationship with Robert Mapplethorpe is a spellbinding, diverting portrait of funky-but-chic New York in the late ’60s and early ’70s.

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Rigorous essays on American higher education, by a Harvard English professor.

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Our enduring central struggle — the battle between the head and the heart — is enacted again and again in Robert Stone’s new story collection.

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A posthumous autobiography from George Carlin and a chronicle of the rise and fall of “The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour.”

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This authorized history of MI5 shines a penetrating light into some of the darkest corners of the domestic arm of British intelligence.

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In these tales, T. C. Boyle continues his career-long interest in man’s vexed tussles with nature.

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Chinua Achebe’s essays on colonial and post-colonial Africa juxtapose ostensibly mild personal anecdotes with serious political reflection.

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Vali Nasr argues that capitalism may be just the antidote for Islamic totalitarianism.

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An oral history of the founder of the Public Theater and the New York Shakespeare Festival.

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In new books, John Yoo celebrates and Garry Wills denounces the rise of presidential power at the expense of Congress.

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How to manage the complexities of the modern world? Simple checklists, a surgeon argues.

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Why the revolutions of 1989 turned out the way they did.

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A novel exploring the encounter from the “Iliad” between King Priam of Troy and his bitter enemy Achilles.

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