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• Books: “Curfewed Night.”

Peer’s memoir of Kashmir chronicles a “fairy-tale childhood of the eighties”—samovars of kahwa tea drunk in paddy fields beneath the Himalayas—that gives way to “the horror of the nineties”: India’s rigging of the 1987 state elections and . . ....

• Books: “Bird Cloud.”

Proulx’s memoir chronicles her years-long quest to build a “final home” in the harsh Wyoming landscape that has provided a setting for much of her fiction. The project is plagued by obstacles, and Proulx’s enthusiasm is fickle. “I still do not know . . . (Subscription required.)...

• Books: “Bird Cloud.”

Proulx’s memoir chronicles her years-long quest to build a “final home” in the harsh Wyoming landscape that has provided a setting for much of her fiction. The project is plagued by obstacles, and Proulx’s enthusiasm is fickle. “I still do not know . . . (Subscription required.)...

• Books: “The Buddha in the Attic.”

8220;We settled on the edges of their towns, when they would let us”: narrated in the first person plural, this short novel chronicles the hardships endured by a group of women who, in the early twentieth century, come from Japan to San Francisco to marry men they&#8217 . . . (Subscription required.)...

• Books: “The Intimates.”

This first novel traces the lives of two friends, Robbie and Maize, from high school to their first post-college year. Sassone focusses on discrete episodes in the lives of his characters: Maize’s deflowering by a college interviewer; Robbie’s trip to Rome to visit his father . . . (Subscription required.)...

• Books: “Mr. Fox” review.

The protagonist of Oyeyemi’s fourth novel is St. John Fox, a celebrated writer who can’t stop killing his heroines. In one of his stories, a husband beheads his wife; in another, a woman saws off her own hand and foot in a church and bleeds to . . . (Subscription required.)...

• Books: “William Golding.”

Carey’s thorough and illuminating biography, the first of Golding, also serves as a crucial introduction to the Nobel Prize-winning novelist’s output. Golding’s novels, which include “The Inheritors,” “Pincher Martin,” and “Darkness Visible,” have always stood in the . . ....

• Books: “The Dead Republic.”

Doyle’s ninth novel, the concluding volume of a trilogy that began with “A Star Called Henry,” chronicles the return to Ireland, after almost thirty years of exile in America, of Henry Smart, a former I.R.A. assassin. The first section, in which Henry works with John Ford . . ....

• Emily Nussbaum: NBC’s “Whitney” and CBS’s “2 Broke Girls.”

Whitney Cummings may be this year’s most unnerving success, having launched two network sitcoms, an unheard-of achievement for a newcomer. On “Whitney,” which airs on NBC, she stars as a version of herself; with Michael Patrick King, she’s the co-creator of &#8220 . . ....

• Books: “Walks with Men.”

Beattie’s novella is set in the Manhattan of literary aspirants’ dreams: a recent Harvard graduate, Jane, takes up with Neil, a man twenty-three years her senior, who provides an education in food, clothing, and sex. “You’re smart,” he says, “but you . . ....

• Books: “The War Lovers.”

Before embarking for Cuba, in 1898, the Rough Riders, led by Theodore Roosevelt, chanted, “Rough, tough, we’re the stuff / We want to fight and we can’t get enough / Whoopee!” In Thomas’s telling, that spirit—manliness so loudly asserted that it&#8217 . . ....

• Books: “The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson.”

Charyn’s novel breezily chronicles the chaotic emotional life of Emily Dickinson. Unfazed by the challenging lack of event in his subject’s biography, Charyn recasts her life, from the early years in Mount Holyoke to her death, in 1886, as a drama of desire, peopled by such . . ....

• Books: Toby Lester’s “Da Vinci’s Ghost” review.

This short, engaging book provides historical and intellectual contexts for one of the world’s most famous drawings, Leonardo’s “Vitruvian Man,” in which a male figure is inscribed in both a circle and a square. Lester traces the conceptual origins of the drawing back to . . . (Subscription required.)...

• Books: “I Curse the River of Time.”

The fall of the Berlin Wall is the backdrop for more intimate collapse in this autumnal novel. It’s November, 1989, and Arvid Jansen, Petterson’s recurring alter ego and antihero, is facing, simultaneously, the disintegration of his fifteen-year marriage and his mother’s diagnosis of . . ....

• Books: “Something Red.”

Gilmore’s second novel chronicles seven months in the life of the Goldstein family, dyspeptic denizens of Washington, D.C., during the late Carter Administration. The woes of her characters mirror those of the nation: gone is the heady optimism of the sixties, replaced by disillusionment and ennui. Dad toils . . ....

• Hilton Als: “Early Plays” by Eugene O’Neill, “CQ/CX,” “Rx” reviews.

The director Richard Maxwell’s adaptation of Eugene O’Neill’s “Early Plays” (at St. Ann’s Warehouse) has the supreme realism of a dream. It is happening, and sometimes you don’t want it to happen, but you’re powerless to . . . (Subscription required.)...

• Books: “Charles Dickens”

Slater, in this enormously detailed biography, gives a vivid sense of Dickens’s quotidian existence, and when he isn’t noting dates or fees sets about identifying the people and events that Dickens’s “clutching eye” transmuted into fiction. Most famous is the twelve-year . . ....

• Sarah Paley: The Fat Off at Jeffrey’s Grocery.

8220;Ooooh, socks on! Such confidence!” “Let’s get this over with, guys!” Anxious male voices filled the dim basement of the restaurant Fedora, on West Fourth Street, one recent morning, as a flurry of shirts and pants were thrown to the floor. An assortment of . . . (Subscription required.)...

• David Denby: Clint Eastwood’s “J. Edgar” review.

Clint Eastwood’s “J. Edgar” is, of all things, a portrait of a soul. The movie is a nuanced account of J. Edgar Hoover (Leonardo DiCaprio) as a sympathetic monster, a compound of intelligence, repression, and misery—a man whose inner turmoil, tamed and sharpened, irrupts . . ....

• Books: “God’s Arbiters” review.

From 1898 to 1902, the United States was mired in the Philippines in a guerrilla war so heated it turned Mark Twain into an anti-imperialist and inspired Rudyard Kipling’s “The White Man’s Burden.” Those in favor of annexing the island nation championed the . . . (Subscription required.)...

• Books: “Blood’s a Rover”

The final novel of Ellroy’s “Underworld U.S.A.” trilogy, following “American Tabloid” and “The Cold Six Thousand,” is a fittingly crazed and violent account of the years 1968 to 1972. Alternating chapters follow three henchmen with ties to a labyrinth of interconnected schemes . . ....

• Books: “The Last Stand.”

On June 25, 1876, Lieutenant Colonel George Custer looked down through binoculars at an immense Indian village on the Little Bighorn River. All he saw were women and children; the men seemed to be away. “Hurrah, boys, we’ve got them!” he shouted. “We’ll . . ....

• Books: Joyce Carol Oates’s “Mudwoman” review.

Because M. R. Neukirchen, the protagonist of Oates’s powerful novel, is a philosopher who plumbs “the perimeters of ‘knowing,’ ” it is no surprise that the book often misleads and confounds. At a young age, M.R. was abandoned by her Christian-fanatic mother in a . . . (Subscription required.)...

• Books: “History of a Suicide.”

In 1990, Bialosky’s twenty-one-year-old half sister Kim gassed herself on exhaust fumes in their mother’s garage, and this elegiac book is both a memoir of grief and an investigation into the depressive mind—“the inchoate and terrible power of inner demons . . . (Subscription required.)...

• Books: “The Ticking Is the Bomb.”

Flynn’s memoir, his second after “Another Bullshit Night in Suck City,” covers impending fatherhood, his mother’s suicide, revelations of torture, and his father’s alcoholism and dementia. The structure—a few pages on each subject—gives the book a jittery energy . . ....

• Books: “Interstate 69.”

Dellinger’s nimble book chronicles the history of a largely unbuilt highway—if completed, it would stretch from the Canadian to the Mexican border—and tells the stories of the communities that stand to profit or to be imperilled by it. The narrative is sprawling by design . . ....

• Nick Laird: “Epithalamium.”

You’re beeswax and I’m bird shit. I’m mostly harmless. You’re irrational. If I’m iniquity then you’re theft. One of us is supercalifragilistic. If I’m the most insane disgusting filth you’re hardly curiosa. You&#8217 . . . (Subscription required.)...

• Nick Laird: “Epithalamium.”

You’re beeswax and I’m bird shit. I’m mostly harmless. You’re irrational. If I’m iniquity then you’re theft. One of us is supercalifragilistic. If I’m the most insane disgusting filth you’re hardly curiosa. You&#8217 . . . (Subscription required.)...