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The author blends polemic and family history in a fragmentary memoir, “A Man of Two Faces.”

A devastating 2020 fire on the island of Lesbos is the springboard for a meditation on origin stories, borders and migration in Lauren Markham’s “A Map of Future Ruins.”

A new biography of Charles W. Chesnutt, by Tess Chakkalakal, explains the friendships and tensions he had with his white literary contemporaries.

Salar Abdoh’s latest novel, “A Nearby Country Called Love,” explores the complexities of relationships, sexuality and cultural norms in modern Iran.

In “A Place of Our Own,” June Thomas considers “six spaces that shaped queer women’s culture.”

The Oscar-nominated actor’s new memoir is at once a Hollywood air kiss and a moving tribute to a happy marriage that ended too soon.

The simple pleasures keep coming in this keenly observed collection by the Argentinian writer Hebe Uhart.

The domestic drama runs high in “A Reason to See You Again,” Jami Attenberg’s latest novel.

In Julie Iromuanya’s novel “A Season of Light,” a Nigerian American family in Florida experiences aftershocks from their father’s trauma during the Biafran War.

In “A Sharp Endless Need,” two female high school athletes get lost in a vortex of passion while grappling with deeper wounds.