April 
The Return of Faraz Ali by Aamina Ahmed. Sent back to his birthplace–Lahore’s notorious red-light district–to hush up the murder of a girl, a man finds himself in an unexpected reckoning with his past.Not since childhood has Faraz returned to the Mohalla, in Lahore’s walled inner city, where women…

If you, like me decide to listen to rather than read Bernardine Evaristo’s memoir, Manifesto, you are in for a special treat. Ms. Evaristo does not…

Isabel Allende has written more than 20 books since she was first published in the 1980s. Five of these: The House of the Spirits (1982), Daughter of Fortune (1998), Inés of…