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In her buzzy memoir, “Sociopath,” Patric Gagne shows herself more committed to revel in her naughtiness than to demystify the condition.

Call her Ruth, or Baby, or Sunday: A San Francisco sex worker’s carefully compartmentalized life starts to unravel in Brittany Newell’s vivid “Soft Core.”

In “Soldiers and Kings,” the anthropologist Jason De León interviews smugglers, arguing that they are victims of poverty and violence, even as they exploit the humans in their care.

The new book by the Philippine journalist Patricia Evangelista recounts her investigation into the campaign of extrajudicial murders under former President Rodrigo Duterte.

Slim and precious, “Somehow: Thoughts on Love” doesn’t measure up to her best nonfiction.

Dinaw Mengestu’s new novel follows a journalist with an elusive history and a persistent wanderlust.

“Something Rotten,” Andrew Lipstein’s latest examination of male self-delusion, finds a Brooklyn journalist falling under the sway of a Svengali.

“Somewhere Toward Freedom” tells the story of Sherman’s March to the Sea from the perspective of the formerly enslaved.

In a new memoir, the rock luminary details his long career and the music that shaped him.

From Shakespeare to Strindberg to “Scarface”: The actor remembers all of it and talks about some of it in “Sonny Boy.”