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A new novel recalls a dark period of El Salvador’s history, as well as Hollywood’s Golden Age and the art salons of Paris.

Elif Shafak’s new novel, “There Are Rivers in the Sky,” follows the same drop of water from the Tigris to the Thames, from antiquity to the 19th century to today.

In her debut novel, “ The Instrumentalist,” Harriet Constable paints a vivid and nuanced portrait of the groundbreaking 18th-century violinist and conductor Anna Maria della Pietà.

A top editor and executive at two publishing houses, she was an advocate for women in publishing, and for equal pay in an industry that had long been male-dominated.

In “Drawn Testimony,” the portraitist Jane Rosenberg takes you inside high-profile federal trials across four decades.

A top editor and executive at two publishing houses, she was an advocate for women in publishing, and for equal pay in an industry that had long been male-dominated.

In “Hitler’s People,” the renowned historian Richard J. Evans takes a biographical approach to the Third Reich.

Generational connections — and divides — abound in four new volumes that take vastly different approaches to storytelling.

Show the zoologist Bill Schutt what your mouth looks like, and he’ll tell you who you are.

In Jo Hamya’s second novel, “The Hypocrite,” a 20-something playwright puts her absent, aging writer dad on blast.