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Alejandro Zambra’s novel considers the legacy of Pinochet.

An investigative journalist examines a juvenile justice scandal, and a maverick defense lawyer recounts his most fraught case.

New books by Petra Reski, Sam Roberts, Walter Stahr and Jessica Grogan.

Alexander Stille looks at the discordant strains of his parents’ marriage.

This biography reveals a fiercely determined activist behind the mild-mannered lady in a hat.

The rocker and frontman for the Voidoids ruminates on his life, loves and his rift with a collaborator.

Two Kurdish brothers are forced to flee the ayatollah’s revolution in Laleh Khadivi’s novel.

A Revolutionary War veteran and his slave are locked in an intimate battle of wills in Margaret Wrinkle’s first novel.

Andrea Stuart pursues the history of both sides of her Caribbean family.

Disguised as a self-help book, Mohsin Hamid’s novel traces a nameless hero’s journey from impoverished boy to corporate tycoon.

Sandra Day O’Connor offers an overview of the Supreme Court’s history.

Paperback books of particular interest.

Recently reviewed books of particular interest.

A new biography of Karl Marx emphasizes his responses to events, not his body of ideas.

The protagonist of William Gass’s “Middle C” is a fraudulent academic who obsessively catalogs the world’s evils in the “Inhumanity Museum” in his attic.

Cynthia Ozick says an author’s age shouldn’t be the subject for a book review.

James Magnuson’s next novel, “Famous Writers I Have Known,” will feature a character inspired by the best-selling author James Michener.

E. L. Doctorow, the author of “The Book of Daniel” and “Ragtime” among many other novels, has a new work, “Andrew’s Brain,” coming in early 2014.

The author of “The Burgess Boys” and “Olive Kitteridge” thinks the president should read Barbara Pym to give him “a few minutes to completely relax.”

The poems will be included in a two-volume critical edition of the author’s verse.