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A Japanese tale of “frustrated love and revenge,” and a visual history of bathrooms.

A maid resists her employers; citizens resist their country.

A memoir of Italy; notes on Canada.

A stroll around the city with a great stylist; a comic novel of love and real estate.

An editor recommends an Irish novel about a banker in trouble and a Swiss novel about schoolgirl obsession.

Ditch the dye; live with style.

In a memoir and a novel, the characters deal with grief by singing in front of strangers.

A gentle and clever comic novel; a poetic and tender essay on addiction.

The Nobel laureate’s “Small Memories” is a mix of peasant life, boyhood adventure and wide-eyed wonder.

A late-life fantasia; a surviving twin’s breakthrough.