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Sam Wasson’s supremely entertaining new book, “The Path to Paradise,” tracks the ups and downs, ins and outs, of a remarkable career.

In Linda Joan Smith’s “The Peach Thief,” an orphaned girl posing as a boy raids an English Eden.

In “The Peepshow,” Kate Summerscale tells the stranger-than-fiction story of a sensational murder case that rocked 1950s London.

Matthew Longo’s new book details how ordinary citizens helped speed the downfall of the Soviet empire.

John Broderick’s “The Pilgrimage” plumbs the rich interior lives of a devout gay man and his wife, without judgment.

In “The Playbook,” James Shapiro offers a resonant history of the Federal Theater Project, a Depression-era program that gave work to writers and actors until politics took center stage.

Even when the Polish novelist Witold Gombrowicz worked within mass-market forms, he veered toward playful disorder.

Published in Japan in 1988, this novel follows a 19-year-old daughter in a happy family who starts to wonder if they are not really hers.

“The Price of Power,” by Michael Tackett, reveals a legislator for whom political survival has been a top priority — even when it means supporting a “sleazeball” for the presidency.

“The Proof of My Innocence” starts as a political whodunit but soon expands into a collage of literary genres.