A spate of new books reevaluate our relationship to the natural world.
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Book review: Lucy Barton returns in Elizabeth Strout’s latest novel
In ‘Oh William!,’ Lucy and her ex-husband travel to Maine together and uncover a family secret that changes everything.
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Bedside table: Bedtime reading that couldn’t be more apt
“If you ever needed convincing that you should get your eight hours of sleep, this is the book! ‘Why We Sleep,’ by Matthew Walker, is both thoughtful and witty, and filled with very interesting scientific evidence to encourage us to make getting our sleep a major Public Health movement.” — MISCHA SCHULER, Portland Mainers, please email […]
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Warren man’s career in storytelling takes a supernatural turn
Paul Guernsey edits The Ghost Story website and anthologies of contemporary supernatural fiction.
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Read excerpts from ’21st Century Ghost Stories’
The anthology was edited by Paul Guernsey of Warren.
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Bedside table: Fact and fiction, present times and past blend in this New England mystery
“‘Point of Graves’ is a great work of fiction. Facts are bent, and the outcomes will grip readers and draw them in. Mark Twain knew that playing fast and loose with facts makes for great storytelling: ‘Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please,’ he famously said. Writer J. Dennis Robinson’s […]
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In ‘Hide and Don’t Seek,’ the stories are short, but the creepiness lingers
A Deer Isle native’s new book for children could prove ‘a gateway drug to Stephen King.’
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Orwell was more than a social critic. Rebecca Solnit’s new book finds him in the garden
Solnit’s ‘Orwell’s Roses’ is the story of a life that doesn’t read like a typical biography.
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Book review: In an unusually told biography, writer Rachel Field lives again
Biographer Robin Clifford Wood has an unusual advantage in telling her subject’s life story – she lives in Field’s former house on an island in Maine. That house, Wood argues, had an outsize impact on Field.
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Bedside Table: A Lindbergh biography with manifold appeal
“Hero worship. Populism. Eugenics. ‘America First’ Nationalism. White Supremacy. Racism. Anti-Semitism. Disenfranchisement of Black Voters. Historian Christopher Gehrz (Bethel University, Minneapolis) touches on these themes and more in ‘Charles Lindbergh: A Religious Biography of America’s Most Infamous Pilot.’ “Most people can readily identify Charles Lindbergh as the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic […]
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