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An Oct. 7 survival memoir and a chronicle of theft in 1948 grapple with the history of a war-torn region.

In “The Hidden Globe,” the journalist Atossa Araxia Abrahamian examines the rise of spaces where wealthy countries and companies bend rules and regulations to their advantage.

Stephen McCauley’s novel about ex-spouses reuniting, in a sense; Jim Shepard’s noir about a fateful hit-and-run.

In his new biography, David Greenberg tells the full story of the civil rights hero who became a long-serving U.S. representative.