These books confront readers with the recent past and distant future, bring them to southeastern Africa and an alternative Japan, and bedeck their pages with subversive cartoons and lush landscapes.

A number of books out this week — a tale of tribal politics, a close-focus mystery, measured criticism and a unique ...

Spring is here – the perfect season to sit in the grass and read a book. Or maybe the pollen count is getting to you, in which case it's the perfect season to sit indoors and read a book.