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May 21, 2025 • We asked some of our trusted critics which upcoming books they are most looking forward to. Here are the fiction and nonfiction titles they picked.

If you’ve been on social media at all this past year, you’ve likely been served an image of Basque cheesecake, a chubby wedge of it with a scorched top the color of a walnut coffee table.