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Vladimir Sorokin’s novel “Blue Lard” features a world largely bereft of love or moral concern, but it reminds us of our freedom.

As Katie Rogers writes in “American Woman,” Jill Biden and other recent spouses are still locked in a role unlikely to change until the presidency does.

Maurice Carlos Ruffin’s “The American Daughters” tells the story of a powerful resistance coming from inside the house.

In “The Washington Book,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Carlos Lozada mines a genre known for sanitized prose to revealing effect.

A brooding biologist seeks transcendence in Martin MacInnes’s richly atmospheric, patiently unfurling novel “In Ascension.”

In “Ferris,” a girl and her grandmother are visited by a friendly ghost; in Erin Entrada Kelly’s “The First State of Being,” a boy is visited by a time traveler.

In her new novel, “After Annie,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist shows how a family pieces itself back together after monumental loss.

Amitava Kumar’s novel links a professor who lived through a nation’s tribulations and his daughter, an Atlanta journalist, before and after the pandemic.

“Piglet,” by Lottie Hazell, is a tantalizing layer cake of horror, romance (sort of) and timely questions about the power of appetite.

In “Strong Passions,” the historian Barbara Weisberg tells the story of an explosive, lurid 1860s case that still resonates today.