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In “True North,” the veteran travel writer Paul Theroux crisscrosses the country of his forebears for insights about how it differs from his own.

“Swan Song,” Charles Spencer’s memoir of Lady Diana, is full of love and vengeance.

Doireann Ni Ghriofa’s “Said the Dead” is a fusion of biography, memoir and poetry drawn from century-old casebooks.

In a new book, the prizewinning biographer Benjamin Moser charts a tradition of Jewish opposition to Zionism and recounts his belated conversion to that view.

In “The Age of Cures,” the journalist Barry Werth shows how American drug manufacturers got big and then came under attack.

In “Hollywood, Ending,” two young actors navigate the highs and lows of the movie industry.

In “Ausländer,” Michael Moritz, the former managing partner of a venture capital firm, examines his inheritance.

In “Shadow Before the Flame,” Catherine Grace Katz puts us back on the famously doomed airship.

In “Crossing the Red Line,” Akbar Shahid Ahmed goes behind the scenes in the Biden White House in the wake of the Oct. 7 attacks.

Fights, feuds and insults are all in a day’s work for Ari Emanuel, who offers an unvarnished look at his rapacious career in a new memoir.