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In the enchanting memoir “The Season” Helen Garner writes about her grandson’s Australian Rules football team — and so much more.

The ambitious but intimate sweep of Patrick Ryan’s new novel, “Buckeye,” recalls classic storytelling of another era.

In the essay collection “Our Fragile Freedoms,” Eric Foner wades again and again into the biggest debates surrounding human bondage in America.

The award-winning science writer Peter Brannen makes the case for an often vilified compound in “The Story of CO2 Is the Story of Everything.”

In “The Call of the Honeyguide,” Rob Dunn explores how the natural and human worlds have helped each other through history — and can again.

In a new novel, Helen Oyeyemi details a week inside a woman’s fragmented consciousness.

Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen follow the breadcrumbs.

In a new book, the journalist Howard W. French tells the story of decolonization and pan-Africanism through the life of Ghana’s visionary first leader, Kwame Nkrumah.

My sister and I fought so bitterly over our copy of “Little Women” that our mother had to buy a second one. Obviously, we didn’t learn much from the story.

“A Truce That Is Not Peace,” the Canadian novelist Miriam Toews’s first nonfiction book since 2001, is a discursive reflection on her father’s and sister’s suicides, 10 years apart.