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Our columnist on four notable novels.

His considerable influence in the French-speaking world was based on an unusual attribute: He had actually been to the revolutions he wrote about.

In a new book, the journalist Howard W. French tells the story of decolonization and pan-Africanism through the life of Ghana’s visionary first leader, Kwame Nkrumah.

They met in an online book group. They traveled to a remote corner of Maine to read together. It was oddly moving.

They met in an online book group. They traveled to a remote corner of Maine to read together. It was oddly moving.

Three new books run the gamut from dismissive to alarmed about our automated future.

My sister and I fought so bitterly over our copy of “Little Women” that our mother had to buy a second one. Obviously, we didn’t learn much from the story.

Jonathan Karp, the chief executive since 2020, will oversee a new imprint that publishes six books a year.

“A Truce That Is Not Peace,” the Canadian novelist Miriam Toews’s first nonfiction book since 2001, is a discursive reflection on her father’s and sister’s suicides, 10 years apart.

Austyn Wohlers’s novel, “Hothouse Bloom,” sets a solitary woman’s reawakening in a setting steeped in biblical imagery.