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“Eating Ashes,” by Brenda Navarro, dispenses with familiar portrayals of mourning in a tale of migration, loss and memory.

Pam Muñoz Ryan’s “El Niño” combines magical realism, climate fiction and coming-of-age sports tales.

In “El Paso,” Jazmine Ulloa paints her hometown as a microcosm for all that is good and bad about the United States.

A crackling new biography captures the formidable personality and often eerie writings of the “Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” creator Muriel Spark.

Walter Isaacson’s biography of the billionaire entrepreneur depicts a mercurial “man-child” with grandiose ambitions and an ego to match.

In “Embers of the Hands,” the historian Eleanor Barraclough looks beyond the soap-opera sagas to those lost in the cracks of history.

In “Emilio Pucci,” the subject’s niece and her husband explore the early life of the Italian designer who dressed the jet set.

In his paean to another age, David Denby studies four icons who defined American culture in the second half of the 20th century.

The classicist Mary Beard examines the excesses and tedium of imperial rule, sorting fact from gossip and tall tales.

Two journalists explore the artificial intelligence company OpenAI and present complementary portraits of its notorious co-founder.