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The Book Review editors discuss fiction and nonfiction that caught their eye. Plus, Ada Limón on the power of poetry.

“The Testaments” focuses on a younger generation coming of age inside Gilead, the religious regime first imagined in Margaret Atwood’s 1985 dystopian thriller.

Matt Phelan’s bear cub named Bartleby and Scott Rothman’s judgy bunny aren’t wicked or misbehaved. Like our reviewer, they simply prefer not to.

Doctors believed that Woody Brown would never be able to speak or process language. He went to graduate school and is publishing his debut novel.

She vividly recalls what the novel, and others like it, meant to her mother. Her own new book is “The Glorians: Visitations From the Holy Ordinary.”

Here are some of our staff’s favorites, for ages 4 to 8.

In anticipation of the nation’s 250th anniversary, a Pulitzer winner visited 300 sites to see how history is displayed and, sometimes, erased.

These single-serving satires, family dramas and romances can be read cover-to-cover in one sun-dappled afternoon.

Novels by Emma Straub, Ben Lerner and TJ Klune; nonfiction by Patrick Radden Keefe and Lena Dunham; a road trip history of the United States; and more.

Part horror, part fable, the latest novel by Marie NDiaye to be translated into English is an exacting portrait of domestic entrapment and psychological turmoil.