HOW IT ENDED: New and Collected Stories, by Jay McInerney. (Knopf, $25.95.) This collection, from a career now reaching nearly three decades, reminds us how broad McInerney’s scope has been and how confidently he has ranged across our national experience.

CLOSING TIME: A Memoir, by Joe Queenan. (Viking, $26.95.) In Queenan’s account of his life, the belligerent priests, the poverty, the girls and the music all pale beside the rages of his drunken, violently abusive father.

THE HINDUS: An Alternative History, by Wendy Doniger. (Penguin Press, $35.) Doniger tries to remedy the enduring impression of a “unified Hinduism” created in large part by the first British scholars of India.

THE ACCIDENTAL GUERRILLA: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One, by David Kilcullen. (Oxford University, $27.95.) Drawing on vast experience as a field researcher and soldier, a counterinsurgency expert emphasizes the protection of local populations.

THE POSSESSION OF MR. CAVE, by Matt Haig. (Viking, $24.95.) After his son’s death, the widower protagonist of Haig’s chilling cautionary novel begins to cling too fiercely to his beautiful teenage daughter.

BLOOD AND RAGE: A Cultural History of Terrorism, by Michael Burleigh. (Harper/HarperCollins, $29.99.) Burleigh is enraged himself, though he ends with a reasoned analysis and moderate prescriptions.

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A KIND OF GENIUS: Herb Sturz and Society’s Toughest Problems, by Sam Roberts. (PublicAffairs, $27.95.) A veteran Times reporter examines the career of a little-known but remarkable public servant.

OUR SAVAGE ART: Poetry and the Civil Tongue, by William Logan. (Columbia University, $29.50.) Logan continues his assault on the state of American poetry.

ONCE THE SHORE: Stories, by Paul Yoon. (Sarabande, paper, $15.95.) Elemental tales of lives on a South Korean island, in spare and beautiful prose.

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