Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke. Knopf, 400 pages. 2026. Made You Look by Tanya Grant. Berkley, 368 pages. 2025. I Could Be Famous: Stories by Sydney Rende. Bloomsbury, 272 pages. 2026. Just Watch Me by Lior Torenberg. Avid Reader Press, 288 pages. 2026. An essay on influencers could start with Marx, or theories of performance, or how doctrines of personal branding first promulgated in the 1990s have forged an unholy union with new technologies of exposure and surveillance. But you’re probably reading this on the internet, and I’m afraid you’ll click away. So let’s begin with a beautiful blonde woman whose future is uncertain, who needs your help, who wants you to watch. Sydney Sweeney, the latest ingénue anointed by what remains of the star system, presents a test case in the evolution of celebrity.…