Ayad Akhtar’s autofictional novel The Radiance is a “profound reading experience” about a writer whose perceptions are dramatically altered after being struck in a hit-and-run.

In Cormac McCarthy: A Legacy Revisited, Tracy Daugherty draws on stories from those who knew the late novelist to create “a careful, balanced portrait of a brilliant, dedicated writer.”

In writing about a small Ohio town grappling with an influx of white nationalists, Madeline ffitch explores “how confusing and hard it is to be good” in Avalon, Rise.

Centered on the 1984 murder of the president of the American University of Beirut, Kim Ghattas’ The Best Kind of American is a “damning” account of US interference in Lebanon.

Digger may be a box-office flop, but Alejandro González Iñárritu’s film “is a misunderstood masterpiece,” The Guardian argues.

Emperor of Nothing, a biography of Larry David by Blake J. Harris, offers “a lively, intimate, sometimes surprising look at the creation” of Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm.