SIX-PACK

Manuscripts lost, found, and stolen—and more new fiction

THE LATE AMERICANS

Brandon Taylor's finely rendered sophomore novel excavates relationships, from lust to soured love, among a group of Iowa City grad students (writers, dancers, and more) and town residents. (Riverhead)

YELLOWFACE

In this publishing world send-up from bestseller R.F. Kuang, a Chinese American literary sensation dies and a middling white contemporary steals her unpublished manuscript— part ghost story, part farce. (William Morrow)

THE SEVENTY-FIVE FOLIOS & OTHER UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPTS

Marcel Proust's recently discovered early manuscripts for his classic magnum opus now appear in English, edited by Nathalie Mauriac Dyer and translated by Sam Taylor. (Harvard)

THE OF WATER COVENANT

In Kerala, South India, a surviving daughter seeks the cause of her family's multigenerational drowning curse in Abraham Verghese's surreal and sweeping epic. (Grove)

THE GUEST

Emma Cline serves glitz and unease: Following a romantic tryst gone awry, a 22-year-old charms her way into the Hamptons houses of unwitting strangers, leaving destruction in her wake. (Random House)

THE PRODIGAL WOMEN

First published in 1942, former VF contributor Nancy Hale's intimate and incisive novel of three 20th-century women coming of age is back in print. (Library of America)—Keziah Weir

Keziah Weir