Andrew McNabb’s two most recent books work differently to address the same questions about how to live as a believer and a parent and an artist. Review by Katy Carl

The latest of the Frank Bascombe novels turns explicitly to a question its predecessors have been considering for forty years. Review by Jeff Reimer

Wiman’s latest resists our tendency to idolize its writer, embracing instead a lively debate both with others and with his own ideas. Review by Whitney Rio-Ross

A collection of essays by writers who play video games resonates both as a cultural commentary and as a means of calling on shared experience. Review by Sara Holston