As the days are getting longer, there is the hope that you could read outside again, and we will look at five new novels that are perfect for the emergence of spring: Love and Other Paradoxes, by Catriona Silvey; The Usual Family Mayhem, by HelenKay Dimon; Play, With Knives, by Jeannette Horn; We Are Watching, by Alison Gaylin; and The Vanishing Point, by Paul Theroux.