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These refreshingly authentic and playful picture books celebrate the many kinds of love that can fill kids’ lives.

The taut, disturbing stories in Bob Johnson’s “The Continental Divide” share the setting of a rural hamlet in Indiana — and transcend it.

In Charlotte Wood’s novel “Stone Yard Devotional,” an atheist burrows into herself while staying in a convent, and contemplates how to live without causing harm.

The standout essays in Megan Marshall’s “After Lives” recall her troubled father and the fate of a high school classmate.

In “The World After Gaza,” Pankaj Mishra looks for moral clarity in the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians.

In the 2022 Prix Goncourt-winning novel “Live Fast,” Brigitte Giraud pieces together the motorcycle crash that killed the narrator’s husband, while tearing her apart.

Our critic on the month’s most notable releases.

Nadine Gordimer’s stories; Margaret Atwood’s sketches.

The novelist Robyn Gigl picks her favorite courtroom dramas and legal whodunits — some of which may surprise you.

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.