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Sebastian Smee’s “Paris in Ruins” follows the lives and careers of Manet, Degas and Berthe Morisot during the Franco-Prussian fiasco.

He produced an early photo book about what he called the first “rock ’n’ roll war,” documented his grandfather’s dementia and became a filmmaker.

He created one of the first photo books about the Vietnam War — the first “rock ’n’ roll war,” he called it — and later documented his grandfather’s struggle with dementia.

Three new books examine debt’s fraught politics and history.

Laszlo Krasznahorkai’s single-sentence tale unearths the catastrophe lurking inside the mundane.

The Supreme Court justice has been drawn to American history and books about the “challenges and triumphs” of raising a neurodiverse child. She shares that and more in a memoir, “Lovely One.”

In his latest collection, Paul Muldoon continues his longtime trick of marshaling obscure references into fluent, fun and rollicking lyrics.

A medieval heist, a Halifax murder, a Dutch wartime winter and a daring 1939 journey to Shanghai provide egress for any taste.

In a new memoir, the journalist Emily Witt delivers a coolly precise chronicle of Brooklyn’s underground party scene and her romance with a fellow partygoer.

A 1966 novel captures a publishing world full of chronic malcontents, strategic lunches and ideas that mattered.