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He deconstructed what he called “the colonial library”: the accounts of Africa by Europeans whose aim, he said, was to further colonialism.

The writer Suleika Jaouad explores what she found on the other side of her fears.

The reality TV star and author of the new memoir “Accidentally on Purpose” on airplane snacks, tongue-scraping and the problem with women’s pants pockets.

A spare elegy; a weird journey.

The beloved author left Chile at a time of great turmoil and has longed for the nation of her youth ever since.

Our columnist reviews this month’s releases.

Suleika Jaouad’s new book provides a master class in personal writing. Here’s why it’s a worthwhile habit — for everyone, not just English majors.

An anthology of her teenage poetry, published for the first time, shows ambition, even if the verse isn’t perfect.

This off-kilter coming-of-age novel about one boy growing up in New York in the 1980s is detailed, digressive and capable of tracking the most minute shifts in emotional weather.

In May, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss “The Safekeep,” Yael van der Wouden’s novel about a woman wrapped up in a historical drama and a forbidden romance.