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For her new book, “Salvage,” the Trinidadian-born writer Dionne Brand rereads classic English novels, teasing out evidence of the ravages of colonialism.

Aaron Robertson’s grandparents had a farm in Promise Land, Tenn. In a new book, he explores the history and meaning of such utopian communities for African Americans.

“Comrade Papa” is told from the perspective of two European arrivals to the West African country, nearly a century apart.

In a new memoir, “From Here to the Great Unknown,” Elvis Presley’s daughter and granddaughter take turns exploring a messy legacy.

A new book chronicles the last 50 years of a notorious American tabloid.

In “Diary of a Crisis,” Saul Friedländer takes the violence and upheaval in Israel day by day.

An Oct. 7 survival memoir and a chronicle of theft in 1948 grapple with the history of a war-torn region.

John Edgar Wideman’s new book connects reflections on his own life to imaginative studies of historical figures.

In “The Hidden Globe,” the journalist Atossa Araxia Abrahamian examines the rise of spaces where wealthy countries and companies bend rules and regulations to their advantage.

Slim and full of obfuscations, her memoir touches on business ventures and raising her son, but barely grapples with the mysteries of her marriage.