New books this week include The Cat Who Dropped a Bombshell by Lilian Jackson Braun; Oh Pure and Radiant Heart by Lydia Millet, featuring time-traveling physicists Fermi, Szilard, and Oppenheimer; Mothers and Other Monsters: Stories by Maureen F. McHugh; The Trouble with Poetry and Other Poems by former US poet laureate Billy Collins.
Name-brand fiction and beyond