This month, we’re reading two novels that wrestle with troubling episodes of political history in Ireland and Venezuela. Maggie O’Farrell (Knopf, 400 pp., $32, June 2026) This month, we’re reading two novels that wrestle with troubling episodes of political history in Ireland and Venezuela. Maggie O’Farrell (Knopf, 400 pp., $32, June 2026) Maggie O’Farrell hardly needs an introduction after the extraordinary success of her 2020 novel, Hamnet.