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Based on his popular Substack, the iconoclastic author’s new book is a warning against the dangers of turning innovation into a secular faith.

“Picket Line,” which was inspired by Cesar Chavez and his union campaigns, has been published for the first time.

The novelist, who wrote about World War II in “Atonement” and has turned repeatedly to his own times, imagines the 22nd century in his new book, “What We Can Know.”

“What We Can Know” follows a scholarly quest amid the ruins of civilization.

Jane Austen’s classic, about the tortured romance of two people frazzled by miscommunications and assumptions, still feels fresh 250 years after Austen’s birth.

In October, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss Stephen Graham Jones’s latest horror novel, about an Indigenous man who is turned into a vampire.

In the small-scale world of Laura Amy Schlitz’s novel “The Winter of the Dollhouse,” the emotional stakes are both intimate and enormous.

She published her first book of poems at 49 and her first work of prose, the acclaimed novel “Rattlebone,” six years later.

Then: His favorite writer. Now: “So earnest, so didactic, so humorless.” His own new novel is “The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother).”

Our critic finds some of the author’s sense and sensibility in this month’s best selections.