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Barbara Kingsolver has put royalties from her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel to work in the region it portrayed, starting a home for women in recovery.

Two new books grapple with the questions of who we are, what we are, whether we are — and what we can do for one another.

In “What Fell From the Sky,” by Adrianna Cuevas, and “Oasis,” by Guojing, the best examples of humanity aren’t necessarily human.

In “How the World Eats,” the philosopher Julian Baggini grapples with “everything that affects and is affected by” our comestibles.

“Rogues and Scholars,” James Stourton’s erudite and authoritative history, doesn’t spare the color.

Ali Smith’s latest novel, “Gliff,” infuses a Y.A. plot with her distinctive verbal magic.

Jon Kalman Stefansson’s novel “Heaven and Hell” recounts a 19th-century fishing trip and its aftermath.

Joseph O’Connor’s novel “The Ghosts of Rome” explores a World War II resistance network based in the Vatican.

Call her Ruth, or Baby, or Sunday: A San Francisco sex worker’s carefully compartmentalized life starts to unravel in Brittany Newell’s vivid “Soft Core.”

In “The Age of Choice,” Sophia Rosenfeld questions whether choosing — what to buy, whom to vote for — is actually worth it.