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Madeleine L’Engle’s domestic memoir; Julie Orringer’s humane short stories

Scrappy domestic novellas and a novel about the unhappy rich.

In Allyson Shaw’s “Ashes and Stones” and Diana Helmuth’s “The Witching Year,” authors confront ancient stereotypes through modern eyes.

A blues novel; a baseball tell-all.

Molly recommends a 19th-century “Dumb and Dumber” and a collection of essays about the weirder corners of the business world.

In Julie Flett’s “Let’s Go! haw êkwa!” and Kirsten Cappy and Yaya Gentille’s “Kende! Kende! Kende!” going is just the beginning of a whole new world.

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.

The authors of “Comedy Book” and “Outrageous” argue that culture-war worries about what’s a laughing matter have been overplayed.

Kristin Chenoweth stars in “The Queen of Versailles” in Boston, while a new “Gatsby” musical in Cambridge takes Myrtle seriously.