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In C Pam Zhang’s “Land of Milk and Honey,” a chef finds herself in an elite community for the superrich in the Italian Alps, one of the last places on Earth where crops still grow.

Two years into a surge in book banning efforts across the country, restrictions that were largely happening in school libraries, where they affected children, are now affecting the wider community as well.

Brian Merchant’s “Blood in the Machine” compares the labor struggles of the Industrial Revolution to today’s abusive gig economy.

In “Foreign Bodies,” Simon Schama studies pandemics past and present, and how much — and little — we have learned.

A rancher turned hero finds himself elected to the Statehouse in the novel “Mr. Texas.”

When white employees refused to work in a notorious hospital, Maria Smilios writes in “The Black Angels,” these nurses came to the aid of New Yorkers.

In “Against Technoableism,” Ashley Shew argues that it’s not the individuals who need “fixing,” it’s their environment.

After receiving plaudits for his recent novels, Lerner returns to verse with an expansive new collection, “The Lights.”

Daniel Mason’s novel “North Woods” is a survey of American history told in a hodgepodge of forms and genres.

In her new novel, “Bright Young Women,” Jessica Knoll shifts our attention from a notorious criminal to the women who died by his hand.