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Following the lives of ordinary citizens, a new book by Janet Reitman fashions an intimate, morally complex portrait of an insecure America.

In “Partita,” a former piano prodigy is sent reeling into the past after she receives a call from the man who derailed her ambitions.

In her new memoir, Meghan O’Gieblyn plumbs the philosophical implications of twin longings: for spiritual fulfillment and for drink.

“Sleeping Beauties,” by the musician David Byrne, explores artistic and scientific innovations that were overlooked before being embraced.

“Other Worlds Than These” is the final volume in the Talisman trilogy, which King wrote with Peter Straub.

In “The Invisible Hand of Maria Edgeworth,” Jeanna Smialek tells the story of a 19th-century author whose fiction brought economic theory down to earth.

In “Brink,” the U.S. diplomat Brett McGurk gives a diaristic account of his work with the Biden and Trump administrations in the wake of the Hamas attack.

In “The AGI Chronicles,” the tech journalist Kevin Roose looks for clues that artificial intelligence might already be smarter than humans.

Set just after World War I, “The Eye of Goliath” details a man’s descent into madness and a doctor’s unorthodox treatment methods.

A new book celebrates the federal bureaucrats who were quietly doing their jobs when the Department of Government Efficiency started squeezing them out last year.