In a new story collection, Annie Proulx returns to disrupt the mythology of the Old West.

In Christopher Buckley’s new novel, the fun begins when a popular TV judge is appointed to the Supreme Court.

Anne Enright’s working-class characters grapple with love, marriage, parenthood, boredom, confusion and desire in this collection of stories, old and new.

The characters in Sana Krasikov’s stories have their minds in two places: America and the former Soviet republics they left behind.

Suze Rotolo remembers the Greenwich Village folk scene and her relationship with a certain rising star.

The Times’s Helene Cooper fled a warring Liberia as a child. In this memoir, she returns to confront the ghosts of her past -- and to find a lost sister.

Paperback books of particular interest.

James Campbell’s profiles, literary essays and reminiscences celebrate writers on the fringe.

The woman and the girl who narrate this French novel are closet intellectuals.

A second book of stories by the Irish writer Claire Keegan.

Kafkaesque stories of three middle-aged white men in the new South Africa.

This week: Christopher Buckley, author of “Supreme Courtship”; Wesley Yang on “Guyland”; Motoko Rich on the children’s author Rick Riordan; and Dwight Garner with best-seller news. Sam Tanenhaus is the host.

When William Styron published “The Confessions of Nat Turner” 40 years ago, black writers objected to his use of dialect and his invocation of inflammatory stereotypes.

Recently reviewed books of particular interest.

For the past several weeks, the children’s paper­back list has included not one, not two, but three different “Star Wars” books based on the animated movie “The Clone Wars.”

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How a community battered by Katrina fielded a championship football team.