A novel in which a man starts seeing the ghosts of old lovers in a Berlin forest

A new warts-and-all biography of the great portrait painter John Singer Sargent

A new book details the civil rights efforts of the great singer Mahalia Jackson

A thriller revolving around, God help us all, cryptology

A new investigation of how social media warps the world of its users

Earl Swift’s account of murder and personal challenge on the Appalachian Trail

A review of Colson Whitehead’s new novel

A prismatic new appreciation of the first great New York writer

An English-language translation of a popular novel about a woman with peculiar horticultural techniques

A new novel from the author of “The Loner”