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The final novel from a titan of Latin American literature follows a critic trying to capture the essence of his national culture.

Conservation experts helped the Nazi regime inspect church and civil archives to track down people they sought to persecute, a researcher concluded.

In “Red Dawn Over China,” the historian Frank Dikötter shows that Communism’s rise in China was an unlikely, violent event with a lot of outside help.

“More Than Enough” traces the struggles of a New York City private-school teacher, often through rose-tinted glasses.

The new book by the California governor and undeclared presidential hopeful depicts a man shaped as much by hardship and struggle as privilege.

As a journalist and author, she wrote meticulous portraits of people for The New Yorker. Her book “Is There No Place on Earth for Me?” won the Pulitzer Prize.

Literary and cultural denizens of the nation’s capital gathered on Saturday to eulogize The Post’s scuppered Book World supplement.

In “The Mixed Marriage Project,” Dorothy Roberts reflects on her anthropologist father’s lifelong project: to document — and promote — interracial marriages like his own.

In his lyrical writings, he examined physical landscapes as well as the interior terrain of his own life — up to the blindness that overtook him in his later years.

Ian McGuire’s new novel, “White River Crossing,” tracks a party of 18th-century fortune seekers through the northern Canadian wilds.