Darkness Visible
By William Golding
Farrar, Straus and Giroux $15
A reissue of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s novel about a scarred boy in the aftermath of the London blitz.
Helen of Troy
By Margaret George
Penguin $16
Reimagines the story of Helen of Troy as told though the Greek heroine’s perspective.
Dominion
By Calvin Baker
Grove $13
A novel about the grandson of a freed slave who is trying to preserve his family estate.
The Interloper
By Antoine Wilson
Handsel $13.95
A debut novel about a man who seeks vengeance for the death of his brother-in-law.
The Early Birds
By Jenny Minton
Vintage $13.95
The author shares details of her twin sons’ premature birth and their harrowing weeks in the neonatal intensive-care unit.
Selected Letters of Martha Gellhorn
By Caroline Moorehead
Holt $17
Puts the correspondent’s letters in context of her personal life and events of the 20th Century.
The Interpreter
By Alice Kaplan
University of Chicago Press, $15
Exposes the racist treatment and unjust persecution of African-American soldiers who served during World War II.
