There are still a few days left in Women’s History Month, and coming out of the Book Review’s recent theme issue we recommend a number of titles this week exploring the place of women in the culture at large. Women in science: “A Lab of One’s Own,” by Patricia Fara. Women in business: “That’s What She Said,” by Joanne Lipman. Women in television: both “Just the Funny Parts,” by the comedy writer Nell Scovell, and “Stealing the Show,” by the TV reporter Joy Press, who has just signed on as a Vanity Fair correspondent. (Yes, her book discusses “Roseanne,” and much else besides.) There’s also a novel and a story collection, a book of essays about being black and female in white male society, and a graphic novelist’s celebration of rebellious women in history. Changing course — you’ll get the bad joke in a second — we also recommend a new translation of the Bhagavad Gita, a deeply reported profile of a Chinese immigrant to New York City and a biography of Tiger Woods. I warned you “changing course” was bad.

Gregory Cowles

Senior Editor, Books

TIGER WOODS, by Jeff Benedict and Armen Keteyian. (Simon & Schuster, $30.) There have been many books about Tiger Woods, but this new biography by Benedict and Keteyian — which arrives just as the golfer is rounding into form again on the course — draws on previous sources and new interviews with more than 250 people to bring grainy new detail to almost every aspect of Woods’s life. “It’s a confident and substantial book that’s nearly as sleek as a Christopher Nolan movie. It makes a sweet sound, like a well-struck golf ball,” our critic Dwight Garner writes. “I found it exhilarating, depressing, tawdry and moving in almost equal measure. It’s a big American story that rolls across barbered lawns and then leaves you stranded in some all-night Sam’s Club of the soul.”

GODSONG: A Verse Translation of the Bhagavad Gita, With Commentary, by Amit Majmudar. (Knopf, $25.) “Godsong” is the poet Amit Majmudar’s translation of the Bhagavad Gita, the enigmatic religious text composed between 400 B.C. and A.D. 200. Majmudar, who is a radiologist as well as a writer, embarked on a crash course in Sanskrit to write it. “Each word became its own research project, the radiologist turned translator peering past the surface of language in search of the inner workings of the text,” our critic Parul Sehgal writes. “The translation is ravishing and faithful, marked by what Nabokov once called ‘the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.’”

PATRIOT NUMBER ONE: American Dreams in Chinatown, by Lauren Hilgers. (Crown, $27.) Hilgers, a New York-based journalist who lived in Shanghai for six years, has written a rich and absorbing profile of a Chinese activist and immigrant named Zhuang Liehong. In addition to being a character study of Zhuang, our critic Jennifer Szalai writes, the book also serves as “an indelible portrait of his wife and their marriage; a canny depiction of Flushing, Queens; a lucid anatomy of Chinese politics and America’s immigration system. Such a comprehensive project could have easily sprawled across a book twice as long, but ‘Patriot Number One’ stays close to the people it follows, in a narrative as evocative and engrossing as a novel.”