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“The Simp,” by Roshan Sethi, is a satire of the unending demands, learned helplessness and stubborn racism of Hollywood elites.

Irvine Welsh brings back his beloved Edinburgh ensemble for his new novel, “Men in Love.”

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

A new book by the historian Mason B. Williams chronicles the dubious effects of school, housing and police reforms by local politicians on the right.

Rachel Aviv’s essay collection, “You Won’t Get Free of It,” shows the breadth and complexity of matrilineal relationships.

“The Coast of Everything,” by Guillermo Stitch, is structured like a nesting doll, with one story hidden within another.

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.