Solvej Balle’s “On the Calculation of Volume” rethinks the familiar story of the endlessly repeating day. By Hilary Leichter Hilary Leichter is the author of the novels “Temporary” and “Terrace Story.

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When readers first met her in The Golden Compass (first published in the U.K. in 1995 as Northern Lights), Lyra Belacqua was a young orphan, hiding in a wardrobe at Oxford’s Jordan College, spying on ...