The Zimbabwean writer was inspired by Faulkner, Eliot and Toni Morrison for “Out of Darkness, Shining Light,” a fictional account of the journey David Livingstone’s workers took transporting his body.

When Mississippi seceded from the Union in 1861, its Declaration of the Immediate Causes proclaimed the absolute necessity of slavery, which produced the goods necessary to the world’s commerce and ...

I met Petina Gappah at a Scribner lunch in New York City during the March prepub tour for her historical novel Out of Darkness, Shining Light, due out in September. It’s easy to see how she charmed ...