For evidence of a so-called cultural vibe shift , the pendulum swing away from the extreme sensitivity and irrational wokeness of the preceding decade, look no further than Lionel Shriver’s new novel, A Better Life , a blunt but layered—and entertaining—depiction of America’s once-lax immigration policies. First, cast your memory back to the dawn of this decade, when the most talked-about novel was Jeanine Cummins’s American Dirt (2020). A first-person account of a Mexican woman’s harrowing