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Tessa Hulls’s “Feeding Ghosts” chronicles how China’s history shaped her family. But first, she had to tackle some basics.

Molly recommends a novel about a scornful teenager and a collection of interviews about a difficult filmmaker.

A new book explores the history of discrimination in women’s health care and how it affects diagnosis and treatment today.

The novelist talks about his new book, “Wandering Stars,” which offers a view of Native American history through one character’s family story.

In the audiobook oral history “Surely You Can’t Be Serious: The True Story of ‘Airplane!,’” a cast of dozens fondly revisits a now-classic film.

Three new books look at the tensions — left, center, right and further right — in the Democratic and Republican parties.

“Louder Than Hunger” joins a very small shelf of novels and memoirs that address eating disorders from a male point of view.

The feisty title character of her new book, “Ferris,” has a sharp eye for detail, and so, its author hopes, does she. Meanwhile, she is on an Alice McDermott reading jag.

In his memoir, “What Have We Here?,” the actor writes about his friendships with Hollywood icons and literary lions.

Deborah Crossland, the author of “The Quiet Part Out Loud,” recommends some of her favorite Y.A. reimaginings of classical myths.