We take the weekend to highlight recent books coverage from The Times:

A tour of the book review:

It’s an honor to have Salman Rushdie reviewing on our cover this week, his first review for The Times since the 1990s, and it’s especially a thrill given his high praise for a debut novel. “The Old Drift,” by Namwali Serpell, is a multigenerational story set in Zambia, where the author was born,

Jennifer Senior, a former book critic and current opinion columnist for The Times, reviews Preet Bharara’s first book, “Doing Justice: A Prosecutor’s Thoughts on Crime, Punishment, and the Rule of Law.” Bharara is also a guest on this week’s Book Review podcast.

In “Foursome,” Carolyn Burke explores the two artist couples who helped found American Modernism: Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O’Keeffe, Paul Strand and Rebecca Salsbury. This comprehensive biography draws on newly-available correspondence between the four, with O’Keeffe emerging as the electric center.

And Howell Raines reviews “Bending Toward Justice,” a new memoir by Senator Doug Jones of Alabama, who discusses his role in the famous 1963 church-bombing case and his experience running for office in 2017. If Alabama has finally shed its past and come to grips with the modern age, Doug Jones may have had a lot to do with it.