Books

Mr. Hunter was a spy, a P.R. man, a journalist and an author of 17 novels including “The Blue Max,” which was made into a 1966 movie.

Mr. Cox was an authority on the Victorian ghost story who, five years ago, spurred by the threat of blindness, sat down and wrote the vast Gothic novel that had been haunting him for three decades.

In which we “break up the Yankees.”

The Irish Repertory Theater in Manhattan is bringing back the poet’s plays to honor the 70th anniversary of his death.

Mr. Houston captured the promise, the harshness and the sheer beauty of California in novels like “Continental Drift” and “Snow Mountain Passage.”

Tessa B. Dick, the last of the five wives of the science-fiction writer Philip K. Dick, has filed suit against a production company run by two of her husband’s daughters.

The British poet Ruth Padel, Charles Darwin’s great-great-granddaughter, has written a verse biography of her celebrated ancestor.

Was Billy Graham a civil rights hero or a conservative apologist? A new history puts the preacher in context.

Following its heroine across her lifetime, this densely stitched crazy quilt of a novel evokes a quintessential American mythology.

The hero of this haunting and fearless novel moves from self-indulgence to the dissolution of self.

Ms. Digges was a renowned poet and memoirist whose work often sprang from private adversity.

Mr. Freud eclectic career included stints as a British Army liaison officer at the Nuremberg trials, cookery expert, Liberal member of Parliament, and celebrated radio broadcaster.

Chesa Boudin grew up as far-left aristocracy, the child of imprisoned former Weather Underground leaders. His book is about the decade he spent crisscrossing South America.

This sexually explicit novel, which was a best seller throughout Europe last year, minutely details the excrescences of a hygiene-busting heroine.

Two economists argue that human emotions cause booms and busts, and advocate for broader, more permanent, more disciplinary regulation.

New books by Leon F. Litwack, Paule Marshall, Kevin Roose and Mark Caro.

The distinctive verse of the Greek poet C. P. Cavafy, newly translated by Daniel Mendelsohn.

A collection of minimally doctored stories of medical brilliance and brutality.

A pollster’s reminiscences of serving world leaders, including a catalog of hugs, itineraries and recycled strategies.

Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Catalog founder and former member of Ken Kesey’s Merry Pranksters, lives on the Mirene, a tugboat moored in Sausalito, on the San Francisco Bay.