In The End of Reality (PublicAffairs, Sept.), USC digital studies professor Taplin argues that Big Tech billionaires are selling people a false future.
Bilal’s debut collection, Temple Folk (Simon & Schuster, July) depicts African American Muslims exploring their faith and seeking liberation in the 1970s.
Siddiqi’s The Centre (Zando/Flynn, Aug) sees Pakistani translator Anisa Ellahi attending a shadowy language institute in London, where promises of quick instruction come at a gruesome, darkly comic cost.