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In her first fully historical novel, Bloom has found a tailormade subject: the love affair between Eleanor Roosevelt and Lorena Hickok. Enlightenment Now The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress By Steven Pinker (Viking; 556 pages; $35) Pinker’s latest book is a meticulous defense of science and objective analysis, a rebuttal to the tribalism, knee-jerk partisanship and disinformation that taints our politics. Back Talk Stories By Danielle Lazarin (Penguin; 240 pages; $16 paperback) In her first story collection, Lazarin brilliantly charts the world of desire and its many complications. Raeff ’s novel is deeply concerned with what makes a family, with inevitable, unanswerable loss, with the intricacies of language and time, love and war, friendship, the life of art and the imagination.