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Reboot emphasizes Justin’s reoccurring preoccupations—faith, fanaticism, utopia—and warps them into a genre-defying, video-game-inspired novel of the present. On a gorgeous spring day, I spoke with Justin on the phone about anarchy, the rewards of literary criticism, the lineage of a teacher, and Garielle Lutz.

Reboot By Justin Taylor Pantheon. 284 pp. $28

Justin Taylor’s novel “Reboot” examines the convergence of entertainment, online arcana and conspiracy theory.

Books to read in April include Ada Limón’s poetry anthology about our fragile world and Salman Rushdie's memoir about being stabbed on stage in 2022.