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Three new books describe far-flung societies — from the Native tribes of North America to the caliphates of Eurasia — that have made war and sustained their conquests.

New books by Vajra Chandrasekera, Avi Silver, Cadwell Turnbull, Michael Mammay and T. Kingfisher.

Our romance columnist recommends four new books.

Our crime columnist recommends four newly published books.

Mixing the medical and the personal, several memoirists find literary analogies the best way to capture unwelcome visits to “unimaginable lands.”

Our romance columnist recommends four new books.

A selection of recently published books.

She wrote of peasants, unsung women, border crossers and, most popularly, Martin Guerre, a 16th-century village impostor recalled in a 1980s movie.

Candid memoirs by Henry Winkler and John Stamos reveal how lucky breaks — and Yale training, and a curling iron — made them into household names.

Memoirs by Meg Kissinger, Athena Dixon, McKenzie Wark and Xiaolu Guo tackle loneliness, self-reinvention and family legacy.