New & Recommended

Rescue Missions
By Frederick Busch
This posthumous story collection artfully depicts a range of small human dramas (Norton, $24.95).

Jane Goodall: The Woman Who Redefined Man
By Dale Peterson
A vigorous biography that captures its subject's many complexities (Houghton Mifflin, $35).

Against the Day
By Thomas Pynchon
The author's first novel in nine years offers his usual pyrotechnics, illuminating a madly turning world (Penguin, $35).

Selected from books recently reviewed in the Globe.