This month, we’re reading two novels that wrestle with troubling episodes of political history in Ireland and Venezuela. Land: A Novel Maggie O’Farrell (Knopf, 400 pp., $32, June 2026) Maggie O’Farrell hardly needs an introduction after the extraordinary success of her 2020 novel, Hamnet . But if that book is known for its specificity, its ability to imagine the minutiae of William Shakespeare’s family life, her latest novel turns its focus outward, using one family to tell the tale of an