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Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.

In a new book, Jill Lepore examines what happens when we abandon liberal democracy for rule by automation and machines.

In “The Book of Chuck,” clairvoyance is a terrible inheritance.

In “Range,” by the Danish writer Dorthe Nors, a misfit astrophysicist lives alone in the wilderness, struggling to connect.

In Edwidge Danticat’s new novel, “Dèy,” a Haitian American mother in Miami experiences the numbing aftershocks of a random act of violence.

Are the 30-somethings in Katy Simpson Smith’s “The Maltese Version” in love? That depends on how you define it.

In “Days of Miracle and Wonder,” Ashley Kahn revisits the “trials and triumphs” of Paul Simon’s “Graceland.”

An ungainly new biography by the German philosopher Thomas Meyer purports to situate Arendt in the context of her own era.

In his new book, Chang-rae Lee follows a 10-year-old into the social powder kegs of schoolyards and summer camps.

In “Sunrise,” Téa Obreht mashes up Western gothic, murder mystery and survival saga.