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In her children’s stories, Clarice Lispector disguised philosophical questions in cheerful, kooky fables about exuberant animals with places to be.

With a ban looming, publishers are hoping to pivot to new platforms, but readers fear their community of book lovers will never be the same.

In “Helen of Troy, 1993,” the poet Maria Zoccola relocates a figure from Greek mythology into small-town Tennessee.