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With echoes of “Never Let Me Go” and “The Goldfinch,” Catherine Chidgey’s devastating new novel watches young lives get twisted into unnatural shape.

In her sweeping second novel, “The Wilderness,” Angela Flournoy inhabits a quartet of shifting perspectives with wit, tenderness and exquisite grace.

The Yale law professor Justin Driver considers the legal arguments for and against the policy, as well as alternative ways to ensure diversity on campuses.

In “Will There Ever Be Another You,” Patricia Lockwood recounts the pandemic’s devastating effects on her life.

In “Born Equal,” Akhil Reed Amar paints a sprawling portrait of 19th-century America in thrall to its founding moment.

In “We the People,” the Harvard historian worries that the glacial amendment process is leading the country to crisis.

Teeming with vivid characters across several continents, “The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny” traces a hesitant romance that challenges tradition and loss.

The Argentine writer Samanta Schweblin explores the ambiguities and ironies of domestic life in a new collection.

In “Boy From the North Country,” a writer returns home to be with his dying mother and learns some shocking secrets.

In Mason Coile’s new book, the first human settlers on Mars arrive only to find that their helper robots have gone off script.