A posthumous memoir by the Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny, which detailed his fight against autocracy and ...

Plus Colum McCann’s “Twist” and Nell Zink’s “Sister Europe.” ...

Books newsletter: a preview of Saturday’s pages; Young Writer of the Year Award; Eoin McNamee and fallow journal launches; AE ...

This is Nuruddin Farah’s most powerful novel. As with all of his fiction, it is set in his homeland of Somalia. Maps is an ...

Following his multi-generational, statement-making novel Afterlives, Abdulrazak Gurnah's new book Theft is a quieter, more ...

Author Abdulrazak Gurnah was a surprise winner of the Nobel prize for his multigenerational saga of displacement and loss ...

T HE AVERAGE American reader gets through about 11 books a year. No one wants to waste their precious free time on a dud. So our critics have sorted through some of the best novels published so far ...

The first novel from Abdulrazak Gurnah since he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2021, the seeds of Theft are sown in ...

This week brings a number of promising new reads — but none more eagerly awaited than Sunrise on the Reaping. We offer 5 books to consider picking up.

In the novel “Theft,” by the recent Nobel laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah, three characters navigate messy relationships in 1980s ...

The fourth edition of the African Book Fair is under way in Paris, with Diaspora Travels as its theme. Cameroon and Brazil are the guests of honour during ...

In March 1986 the president of Burkina Faso, who hid his books in trunks to avoid revealing himself, granted a very personal ...