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An F. B.I. rookie hunts for a serial killer, four friends seek reparations, a daughter searches for her mother and a community looks for answers in four new mysteries.

He insisted that there were no morals to be found in the murder of six million Jews, nor was language itself capable of fully describing it.

Chester Himes was on par with Ellison, Hemingway and Fitzgerald, S.A. Cosby writes.

An F. B.I. rookie hunts for a serial killer, four friends seek reparations, a daughter searches for her mother and a community looks for answers in four new mysteries.

Veera Hiranandani’s “Amil and the After” and Saadia Faruqi’s “The Partition Project” show that the rending of the subcontinent is as relevant and heartbreaking as ever.

The actor reads “Collision of Power,” a new memoir by the famed former editor of The Washington Post and The Boston Globe.

A new novel about Thomas Mann’s longstanding American translator portrays a woman ahead of her time and, despite her shortcomings, important to leading Mann to a Nobel Prize.

“Where you choose to direct your senses, step by step, matters,” says the eminent nature writer. His 30th book, “With Every Great Breath: New and Selected Essays, 1995-2023,” is out in February.

“The Women” follows a San Diego debutante into a world of gut wounds and napalm. But the real challenge comes when she arrives home.

When this journalist started collecting strangers’ stories about race, she relied on a trusted intermediary: the United States Postal Service.