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In Daniel Mason’s charming “Country People,” a stuck father and his happier family are tempted, and changed, during a stint on a bucolic campus.

In “American Trickster,” Ru Marshall takes on the epic story of Carlos Castaneda.

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A new book by Samuel Moyn argues that the country has become an “oldigarchy,” in which wealth and power are hoarded by the elderly.

“The Midnight Special” offers an unconventional cultural history with profiles of five artists influenced by the carceral system.

In Paul Tremblay’s new A.I. dystopia, “Dead but Dreaming of Electric Sheep,” an experimental technology gives its heroine control over somebody else’s body.

In her biography of the novelist George Sand, Fiona Sampson urges us to see Sand chiefly as a writer, an inventor of stories and also of the self.

A new book examines the desperate lives of Nigeria’s romance scam artists — and their victims.

Caro Claire Burke’s best-selling novel, about a tradwife influencer with some surprises in store, is one of the buzziest books of 2026.

In July, the Book Review Book Club will be discussing Stuart’s latest novel, about a profoundly isolated father and son, each grappling with long-held secrets.