In “The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts,” Gregg Hecimovich pieces together the story of a woman who fled slavery, and whose manuscript was lost for more than 150 years.
In Molly McGhee’s debut, “Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind,” debt-laden citizens are recruited to “audit” others’ dreams — all in the name of productivity.
Writing of life in Harlem, she emerged at the same time as Toni Morrison and Maya Angelou but never achieved their fame, though James Baldwin was an admirer.
New fiction from Michael Cunningham, Sigrid Nunez and others; a candid Mitt Romney biography; and memoirs by Barbra Streisand, Britney Spears and more.
Organizers cited the Israel-Hamas war as the reason for stepping back from honoring a novel about the 1949 murder of a Palestinian girl by Israeli soldiers.
His books, laced with humor and often banned in his country, chronicle centuries of strife in the Middle East, earning critical praise and an international readership.