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As her career took off, the best-selling Canadian novelist found the ideal office mate: her cat. They even had matching desk chairs.

Sometimes our reflections have nothing to do with us; sometimes they’re “the hide to our seek.”

In these books, love is a choice you make over and over, not just on one day in a white dress.

A selection of recently published books.

Harakka Island, a creative community off the coast of Helsinki, Finland, helped the illustrator Marika Maijala come into her own as an artist. “I don’t know where my art ends and my life begins. The border is fleeting.”

Across Korea and Canada and the Midwest, these lonely protagonists guide us through ennui, delusion and even the afterlife.

In Maud Ventura’s “My Husband,” a Frenchwoman cannot stop surveilling her spouse: “I think of my husband all the time; I wish I could text him all day.”

In Maud Ventura’s “My Husband,” a Frenchwoman cannot stop surveilling her spouse: “I think of my husband all the time; I wish I could text him all day.”

Two new books bring attention to old discoveries with the potential to cure stubborn ailments and reveal the secrets of biology.

Harry Smith lived many lives. “Cosmic Scholar,” a new biography, details his earthly ones.