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The best books of the week
Ali Smith’s coda to her Seasonal Quartet affords a clever, humane voice for perilous occasions. Along with reviewing a piece during which an ornithologist units out to show human resemblance to birds, we delve right into a enjoyable historical past of the non-public vehicle and eat a scrumptious story of Chinese language-American household turmoil — plus Julian Barnes’ newest novel and a round-up of the very best new books on local weather change