Jayne Anne Phillips won the fiction award for “Night Watch,” while Jonathan Eig and Ilyon Woo shared the biography prize.

Americans like their politicians to be dog people. Gov. Noem broke the mold.

Montreal is a city as appealing for its beauty as for its shadows. Here, the novelist Mona Awad recommends books that are “both dreamy and uncompromising.”

Hari Kunzru examines the ties between art and wealth in a new novel, “Blue Ruin.”

In Alexis Landau’s ambitious new novel, “The Mother of All Things,” the frustrations of modern parenting echo through the ages.

Michael Deagler’s first novel follows a young man who is piecing his life back together and trying very hard not to drink.