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Set among divinity school professors unsure of just what they believe, Robert P. Baird’s satirical novel, “The Nimbus,” strains for the heavenly.

In “The Nine Lives of Christopher Columbus,” Matthew Restall explores the seemingly immortal reputation of one of history’s most projected-on figures.

The private musings of Sonny Rollins reveal an artist devoted to the rigors of self-improvement.

In “The Once and Future World Order,” by Amitav Acharya, and “The Golden Road,” by William Dalrymple, our best hope might be that history repeats itself.

In “The Original Daughter,” the debut novel by Jemimah Wei, a Singaporean family craters under the weight of ambition, jealousy and things left unsaid.

In “The Other Profile,” a struggling grad school dropout starts to work for, and then becomes obsessed with and consumed by, a semi-famous content creator.

In “The Other Side,” the art critic Jennifer Higgie explores artists who found self-expression through different media — and mediums.

With folk traditions and sui generis prose, Amos Tutuola enthralled readers with his magic realist novel “The Palm-Wine Drinkard.”

A new book by the legal journalist Jeffrey Toobin plumbs the dubious history of the presidential pardon.

In “The Paris Novel,” Ruth Reichl is a glutton for wish fulfillment.