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A boy unearths a treasure trove of adjectives, and a strange word discovered by a scholar becomes an overnight sensation.

Stephen Graham Jones and Joe Hill with their recommendations for this Halloween season.

Sometimes a spoon is just a spoon.

A chilly marriage; a catatonic protagonist.

Leah Greenblatt recommends “Meg,” by Theodora Keogh, and “The Glass Cell,” by Patricia Highsmith.

Slip these into your pockets.

An editor recommends “84, Charing Cross Road” and “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society.”

An overbearing mother; a vanished sister.

Serhiy Zhadan, 50, is a beloved Ukrainian poet as well as a novelist, lyricist and rock star. Furious over the invasion, he enlisted to fight even as his band still plays and his readings fill halls.

In “The Birds That Audubon Missed,” Kenn Kaufman delves into the fierce, at times unethical, competition among early American ornithologists.