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In Michèle Gerber Klein’s new biography, “Surreal,” Gala Dalí gets her due.

A new book by the neuroscientist Leor Zmigrod explores the connections between brain biology and political beliefs.

Two new books use divergent styles to look at mind control, brainwashing and the outer limits of influence.

In “The Mysterious Mr. Nakamoto,” Benjamin Wallace is hot on the trail of the person — or people — behind a financial revolution.

In “The Power of Parting,” Eamon Dolan makes a persuasive case for eliminating contact with family members whose abusive behavior can’t be redeemed.

“The Snares,” by Rav Grewal-Kök, examines the perils and moral quandaries of clandestine service.

In “The Usual Desire to Kill,” Camilla Barnes finds the humor in a daughter’s aggravating visits to her aging parents at their run-down home in rural France.

A new book by the journalist Brian Goldstone puts a spotlight on people who have jobs but no homes, whose struggles remain largely invisible.

The author of more than a dozen books and an award-winning documentary, he died in a car crash in Southern California.

The opening of the Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne archives in the New York Public Library reveals unseen aspects of their family life, and approach to writing.