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Meg Wolitzer and Charlie Panek’s “Found Sound” and Aida Salazar’s “Stream” send their protagonists on a listening (and healing) tour of real life.

In June, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss a novel about a tradwife who wakes up in 1855, living the pioneer life she has been performing online.

In her book “Sublimation,” Isabel J. Kim reimagines the dilemmas of immigration through a science fiction story about scheming clones.

Beyond a few pointed digs at her husband’s successor, “View From the East Wing” largely sticks to the head-spinning details of first lady-hood.

A new book by Antonia Senior chronicles the careers of five men who betrayed their country — with devastating results.

In “The Danger to Be Sane,” the journalist Rosa Montero delves into the connections between psychic turbulence and creative work — including her own.

In “Dekonstructing the Kardashians,” MJ Corey takes America’s most famous TV clan seriously.

In “Freedom Round the Globe,” Sarah M.S. Pearsall tracks the stirrings of liberty beyond the British colonies that became the United States.

Tom Lin’s new novel, “Babylon, South Dakota,” reimagines the western with surreal elements.

The stoic narrator of “The Vivisectors” befriends a student embroiled in a cultural politics debate.