DEVILS BARGAIN: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Nationalist Uprising, by Joshua Green. (Penguin, $17.) Green's deeply reported account explores Bannon's origin story and how he helped pull off a major political upset: the election of Donald J. Trump. Their partnership - and shared talents for whipping up spectacle and outrage - ushered in what Bannon saw as the culmination of a global populist uprising. RUNNING, by Cara Hoffman. (Simon & Schuster, $16.) It's 1988 in Athens, and a group of hustlers roam the city's underbelly. Bridley, who has left the United States behind, joins a British couple, Jasper and Milo, and is soon folded into their relationship. Our reviewer, Justin Torres, praised these "memorable antiheroes," calling them "tough and resourceful, scarred, feral and sexy." STALIN AND THE SCIENTISTS: A History of Triumph and Tragedy 1905-1953, by Simon Ings. (Grove, $19.) For the founders of the Soviet Union, science was always a pillar of the state. But for scientists, the stakes were higher: If they published research the government did not endorse, they faced jail, exile or death. Ings offers a fascinating look at this establishment, which he calls "the glory and the laughingstock of the intellectual world." NEW BOY, by Tracy Chevalier. (Hogarth, $15.) In Chevalier's retelling of "Othello," part of Hogarth's series of novels revising Shakespeare plays, the events unfold over a single day on a Washington playground. When O, a sixth grader from Ghana, arrives at his new school in the 1970s, Dee, the most popular girl, is immediately drawn to him. As children and teachers alike weigh their unease with a black student in the school, a malicious classmate tries to torpedo the friendship - with a shocking conclusion. A HOUSE FULL OF FEMALES: Plural Marriage and Women's Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870, by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich. (Vintage, $18.) The author, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, draws on diaries, letters and even quilts to understand how women reacted to their church's controversial embrace of polygamy. But even as Mormon women strained under domestic responsibility, they were able to become political actors. 4 3 2 l, by Paul Auster. (Picador, $18.) After Archie Ferguson, the novel's central character, is born, Auster offers up four distinct versions of his life, with characters and themes that recur across his different lives. Our reviewer, Tom Perrotta, called the story "a work of outsize ambition and remarkable craft, a monumental assemblage of competing and complementary fictions, a novel that contains multitudes."