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New fiction by Chloe Aridjis, Ghassan Zeinnedine and Megan Kamalei Kakimoto ranges from the fabulist to the vaguely autofictional.

In Marie NDiaye’s new novel, “Vengeance Is Mine,” a woman is haunted by a decades-old trauma she feels, but cannot quite remember.

Sarah Ogilvie’s sprightly “The Dictionary People” pays tribute to the explorers, suffragists, murderers and ordinary citizens who helped create the Oxford English Dictionary.

“The Reign of Marvel Studios” captures how movies based on comic-book properties came to dominate pop culture. At least until now.

With the republication of “The Children’s Bach,” a 1984 novel, and “This House of Grief,” a 2014 account of a murder trial, the Australian writer Helen Garner is ripe for discovery by American readers.

In her new book, “Brainwyrms,” Alison Rumfitt reimagines contemporary anti-trans bigotry as a ravenous helminth that causes its hosts to go violently mad.

The heroine of Ainslie Hogarth’s “Normal Women” is so desperate to escape the confines of conventional, upper-middle-class womanhood that she turns to a yoga studio that looks a lot like a cult.

Cat Bohannon’s “Eve” is an opinionated clapback against centuries of male-centric evolutionary history.

As a new novella and a new edition of “The Tale of Despereaux” remind us, her stories demand a lot from young readers, but the rewards can be magical.

In “Family Meal,” the author follows the jagged reunion of two former best friends, each grappling with grief and complicated relationships.