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In “The Race to Be Myself,” the Olympic runner tells the full story of her gender-based discrimination and dehumanization by the global athletics world.

Lima is a city of contrasts and contradictions — gray and tropical, dense and isolated. Augusto Higa Oshiro, one of its writers, recommended books and authors that have captured its complexity.

Irish Repertory Theater’s season-long survey of the playwright’s work prompted our reporter to seek out the Irish town that inspired the imaginary site of so many of his plays.

In Elaine Feeney’s latest book, a child’s grief-driven engineering dream connects a handful of isolated citizens in a small Irish town.

In “The Genius of Israel,” Dan Senor and Saul Singer take a look at the economic strength and high quality of life for some of the people who live in a troubled country.

Our romance columnist recommends four new books.

The actor Michelle Williams reads the audiobook version of the recently liberated pop star’s memoir, “The Woman in Me.”

Ahead of its new production of Anthony Davis’s “X,” the house hosted a starry, 18-hour reading of Malcolm X’s autobiography.

A.K. Blakemore’s novel “The Glutton” reimagines the life of an 18th-century sideshow performer who could eat almost anything.

The process of selling Simon & Schuster has been long and tumultuous, and was waylaid by an earlier antitrust suit.