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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.

But there is a place for the Bible, says the director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, which is celebrating its centennial.

Our columnist on four notable novels.

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.