Adelle Waldman’s “Help Wanted” and Madeleine Gray’s “Green Dot” skewer the modern workplace. Credit...André Derainne Supported by By Alexandra Chang Alexandra Chang is the author of ...

There's a moment towards the end of Adelle Waldman's new novel, Help Wanted, where a smart-but-insecure young woman named Nicole, who's a worker in a big-box store, approaches her manager to ask ...