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In “Legacy,” Dr. Uché Blackstock writes about losing her pioneering physician mother and the pervasive health woes of Black Americans.

“The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels,” a modern take on the epistolary novel, is hard to put down.

Calvin Trillin collects many of his inimitable profiles and essays about journalism in “The Lede.”

“Disillusioned,” by Benjamin Herold, follows five families living in the burbs — where they contend with struggling schools, degraded infrastructure, poverty and discrimination.

Adam Shatz’s “The Rebel’s Clinic,” a new biography of the psychiatrist and revolutionary Frantz Fanon, aims to restore complexity to a man both revered and reviled for his militancy.

In her new novel, “Dead in Long Beach, California,” Venita Blackburn explores the chaos of mourning by following a woman who stumbles into an ethically dubious way to cope with loss.

In a new book, Manjula Martin explores her accommodation to life in Northern California in an era of increasingly extreme weather.

In “Tripping on Utopia,” Benjamin Breen chronicles the legendary anthropologist’s doomed effort to save the world through hallucinogens.

“Invisible Man” “made me feel seen and heard,” the rapper-actor says. “I can return the favor.” His new book, “And Then We Rise: A Guide to Loving and Taking Care of Self” is out this month.

A rash decision to attend an anti-Qaddafi protest in London reverberates in Hisham Matar’s poignant and quietly suspenseful third novel.