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A story collection from Diane Oliver, who died at 22, locates the strength in Black families surviving their separate but equal surroundings.

A devastating 2020 fire on the island of Lesbos is the springboard for a meditation on origin stories, borders and migration in Lauren Markham’s “A Map of Future Ruins.”

In her memoir “I Heard Her Call My Name,” the author reflects on her life and embarking on a gender transition in her late 60s.

He directed the Italian American studies program at Queens College — the first of its type in American academia — and wrote about his ethnic group in “Blood of My Blood.”

One of the first quadriplegic Harvard graduates, she became an author, professor and powerful voice for disabled people.

In “Smoke and Ashes,” Amitav Ghosh sources the colonial roots of a crisis.

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“The Hammer” offers portraits of organizing efforts from around the country at a time when the future of union power has reached an inflection point.

His charming memoir “What Have We Here?” traces the path from a Harlem childhood to “Star Wars,” while lamenting the roles that never came his way.

Rae Giana Rashad imagines an alternate America in her first novel, “The Blueprint.”