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In Stuart Nadler’s novel “Rooms for Vanishing,” four characters search for and grieve one another across separate timelines.

In “The Fisherman’s Gift,” a man finds a lost child on a Scottish beach after a storm, a discovery that unlocks a town’s suppressed drama.

In “Funny Because It’s True,” Christine Wenc offers an idiosyncratic history of The Onion, the publication that made the media its chief satirical target.

When a woman shot her married lover in 1870s San Francisco, all of America took sides.

In “Saving Five,” Amanda Nguyen tells a winding story of pain, justice and stratospheric accomplishment.

In “The Buffalo Hunter Hunter,” a Blackfeet man is transformed into an undead bloodsucker and seeks vengeance for America’s sins.

Marcy Dermansky’s novel “Hot Air” plunges two couples — one old, one new; one rich, one not — into the deep end, together.

The former Vanity Fair editor reflects on an era’s power moves and expense-account adventures in a new memoir.

In “Red Scare,” Clay Risen shows how culture in the United States is still driven by the political paranoia of the 1950s.

Vincenzo Latronico’s novel “Perfection” explores the capital of Europe’s expat scene in its heyday.