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Her new novel, “Night Watch,” is a mother-daughter story set in a West Virginia mental institution.

A prolific feminist turns her sights to the opposite sex.

Her second novel, “The Unsettled,” follows three generations in a family divided between the North and the South in 1980s America.

Isle McElroy’s second novel, “People Collide,” puts a pair of bored newlyweds in each other’s shoes.

The Substack pundit Fredrik deBoer and the political scientist Yascha Mounk feel that liberal ideologues and “woke” pretenders have marred American life.

In Eliza Clark’s novel “Penance,” a 16-year-old becomes more fascinating in death than she was in life.

In Nora Fussner’s new novel, the jaded producers of “Searching For … the Invisible World” are pulled into a haunted story they initially refuse to believe.

In “The Fall,” Wolff predicts the collapse of Rupert Murdoch’s cable network and recounts the recent tumult there through a barrage of fuzzily sourced trash talk.

In two new books, the historians Adrian Goldsworthy and Tom Holland portray an empire that knew how to hold back from a fight and make room for upstarts.

Books by Paul Harding, Jonathan Escoffery and Chetna Maroo are among six titles nominated for the prestigious literary award.