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Evelyn Waugh’s garrulous embalmers; Deborah Eisenberg’s urban neurotics.

In “All the Rage,” the social historian Virginia Nicholson discusses the changing standards that bedeviled and enthralled a century of women.

On the trail of Ralph Fiennes in 1990s Manhattan, the esteemed novelist pays a visit to a burlesque club.

In her debut novel, “ The Instrumentalist,” Harriet Constable paints a vivid and nuanced portrait of the groundbreaking 18th-century violinist and conductor Anna Maria della Pietà.

A top editor and executive at two publishing houses, she was an advocate for women in publishing, and for equal pay in an industry that had long been male-dominated.

In “Drawn Testimony,” the portraitist Jane Rosenberg takes you inside high-profile federal trials across four decades.

A top editor and executive at two publishing houses, she was an advocate for women in publishing, and for equal pay in an industry that had long been male-dominated.

In “Imminent,” the former intelligence official who ran a once-secret program shares some of what he knows.

Ailton Krenak was a child when his family was forced to leave their land in Brazil. Now, as a writer, he advocates for a path forward that looks to nature and inherited wisdom.

“My gaze meets the spine of a certain book,” explains the author of “The Memory Police.” “We exchange glances. … This book has chosen me.” Her latest novel to be translated from Japanese is “Mina’s Matchbox.”