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In “Fortune’s Frenzy,” Eilene Lyon traces the hardship and misery endured by Henry Jenkins, a stalwart Indiana farmer who, along with thousands of others, journeyed to California in 1851.

“The Deadline” collects 46 essays on subjects ranging from Herman Melville and Jane Franklin to feminism and A.I.

In “Fixer,” his second collection, the poet Edgar Kunz demonstrates a hard familiarity with the gig economy.

“Terrace Story” is a novel about generations of women confronting the other side of reality.

Her new novel, “The Fraud,” is based on a celebrated 19th-century criminal trial, but it keeps one eye focused clearly on today’s political populism.

In “Everything/Nothing/Someone,” Alice Carrière recalls her coming-of-age as the daughter of artists, and her eventual slip into dissociative disorder.

Sarah Bakewell examines two new books about Mr. and Mrs. Orwell.

Jonathan Miles’s “Once Upon a Time World” is a delightful, dizzying romp through the world’s most glamorous muse: the French Riviera.

“The Maverick: George Weidenfeld and the Golden Age of Publishing” recalls a champion of ideas with a knack for networking and a taste for the high life.

A new book surveys a range of creative output, collectively replacing outdated narratives of Indigenous cultures with the perspectives of the artists themselves.