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A new book of essays by the celebrated classicist captures her excitement for her subject matter and the surprising range of her references.

Works by Amy Schwartz, Sophie Blackall, Oliver Jeffers and Chris Priestley show little ones what they might miss if they stay home.

In an evocative new memoir, the journalist Wilbert L. Cooper explores the history, and paradoxes, of race and policing in Cleveland, his hometown.

In “The Time Tax,” the Atlantic journalist Annie Lowrey takes aim at bureaucratic red tape.

In Jennifer Hillier’s new book, a woman must confront her traumatic past after a body washes up on the shores of her seaside town.

In “Up on Cove Mountain” Earl Swift confronts a place — and a tragedy — that haunts him.

“The Anniversary,” a novel by the Italian novelist Andrea Bajani, examines a marriage ravaged by abuse and malice.

In “The Great Wherever,” generations of spirits watch as their descendants debate whether or not to sell their ancestral home.

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Though full of details that echo the life and career of Natalie Portman, “Life of M” remains chilly and abstract.