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In “Everything/Nothing/Someone,” Alice Carrière recalls her coming-of-age as the daughter of artists, and her eventual slip into dissociative disorder.

“Getting In,” a new book from David Kennerley, collects the edgy advertisements for parties at clubs like the Palladium and records a culture forged from defiance.

Mathieu Belezi has been fascinated by the history of colonial Algeria for years. Acclaim finally came with his latest book, a sign of changing times.

Sarah Bakewell examines two new books about Mr. and Mrs. Orwell.

Jonathan Miles’s “Once Upon a Time World” is a delightful, dizzying romp through the world’s most glamorous muse: the French Riviera.

“The Maverick: George Weidenfeld and the Golden Age of Publishing” recalls a champion of ideas with a knack for networking and a taste for the high life.

Life after marriage; life with prostitutes.

The actor, musician and playwright has made a career out of finding ways to stay creative between “Dumb and Dumber” and “To Kill a Mockingbird.”

A noted educator and anthropologist, she spent almost her entire life in China, where she was a committed friend of the Communist government.

A new book surveys a range of creative output, collectively replacing outdated narratives of Indigenous cultures with the perspectives of the artists themselves.