In Aamina Ahmad’s stunning debut novel,“The Return of Faraz Ali,” a police officer is asked to cover up a young girl’s death in the red-light district of Lahore, Pakistan.
Novels from Jennifer Egan and Emily St. John Mandel, poetry by Ocean Vuong and nonfiction from Elizabeth Alexander. Plus: Did jealousy conceal the true inventor of the motion picture?
New novels from Jennifer Egan, Ali Smith and Hernan Diaz; debuts from Aamina Ahmad and Jenny Tinghui Zhang; posthumous stories and a novel by Tove Ditlevsen; and plenty more.