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In Rebecca Perry’s “May We Feed the King,” a curator falls down a rabbit hole imagining life in a palace court.

“Ply,” by Hernan Diaz, is set in a dystopian future where the state has been dismantled and one company controls the energy supply.

In “Holding Lightning,” the critic Emily Lordi takes on the complicated legacy and misunderstood artistry of the late singer.

“Man in the Mirror,” by Anand Giridharadas, is a searching investigation into the 2023 death of Jordan Neely and the trial of the man who held him in a chokehold.

An engaging new book shows the master of American Gothic to be a deeply disturbed man who embraced the darkness most of us flee.

Yoon’s latest novel is about a bomb-sniffing dog trying to make it home after a war.

In “Mestra,” Madeline Miller follows the daughter of the king of Thessaly on her endless, self-destructive quest to satisfy her insatiable father.

“Dodge City,” by Patrick deWitt, follows a young man on a road trip to Canada to avoid conscription in Vietnam.

In October, the Book Review Book Club will read Cline’s latest, about a man with dementia who has decided to end his life on his own terms.

A new book by Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz recounts how violent resistance by a group of armed Black men fueled the fight over slavery.