Postmarked from California with no return address, a karate book comes full circle at Marquette’s Raynor Library.

The Norwegian author Linn Ullmann’s new novel pieces together fragments of a trip she took to Paris at the request of a much older photographer.

Stendhal’s “The Charterhouse of Parma” lays out thousands of rules and stratagems for elites trying to stay in the good graces of a powerful and capricious ruler.

New books published this week include a nostalgic graphic history of video games, a queer, complicated and hopeful novel set ...