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In an ancient Greek tale, Clytemnestra kills her husband, Agamemnon, after he sacrifices their daughter, Iphigenia. New Yorker journalist Janet Malcolm spots parallels in a case from a Forest Hills, N.Y., courtroom. Her telling of the case shakes and disturbs you like the smartest nonfiction can.

Mystery writer Ian Rankin recently retired the gruff detective John Rebus, beloved star of 17 novels. In The Complaints, Rankin whips up a new police protagonist: Malcolm Fox, a more mild-mannered cop who works in internal affairs, investigating other policemen.

Stewart O'Nan's moodily comic novel Emily, Alone follows an 80-year-old woman as she navigates the minutia of everyday life. O'Nan explains how he got inside Emily's head.

When is it all right for leaders to lie to other leaders, other nations — or their own? Political scientist John Mearsheimer poses the provocative question in his new book.

These days, news of disaster seems to stream in relentlessly — and Jim Shepard's well-timed You Think That's Bad dives deeper into stories of catastrophes and lost control. Shepard's fearless, exquisite writing illuminates truths about the pain of experiencing disaster.

Gwyneth Paltrow cooks and tells family stories; a sumptuous illustrated biography of Diana Vreeland now in paperback; a comprehensive Latin American poetry anthology; an expose of working at the mall.

Writer Hisham Matar, who was nominated for the Booker Prize for his book, In The Country of Men, speaks with Renee Montagne about writing and fiction in an unstable Libya.

To live a long life, we've been told, eat well, exercise and manage stress. Now, an eight-decade study indicates that advice is only part of the equation. Howard Friedman and Leslie Martin explain how social connections, personality and marriage affect our lives in The Longevity Project.

Dame Margaret Drabble is more well known for her novels of contemporary English life, but a new collection of her short stories charts the evolving emotional life of women in England over the past half-century.

For nearly eight years, married journalists Jennifer Griffin and Greg Myre covered the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. During that time, their life was about reporting on street violence, suicide bombings — and starting a family.