‘Hurricane Season’ by Fernanda Melchor. New Directions, 224 pages. $22.95
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Book review: A 15-year-old girl has an affair with her teacher
In New York Times bestseller ‘My Dark Vanessa,’ the same girl, now grown up and her life a wreck, wrestles with what it meant.
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Bowdoin professor longs for home she defended with ‘Appalachian Reckoning’
North Carolina native Meredith McCarroll co-edited the collection of essays in response to ‘Hillbilly Elegy.’
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Mantel, Evaristo among finalists for fiction’s Women’s Prize
Hilary Mantel’s “The Mirror and the Light” and Bernardine Evaristo’s “Girl, Woman, Other” are among six finalists for the international Women’s Prize for Fiction
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“The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time” by John Kelly, Harper Perennial, 364 pages. Paperback, $16.99
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An aspiring writer navigates writing and romance in Lily King’s latest
Though in crisis, ‘Writers & Lovers’ protagonist Casey Peabody refuses to give up on her creative dreams.
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Alvarez returns with a stunning reflection on loss
Writer Julia Alvarez is back with her first novel in almost 15 years.
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City Lights Bookstore launches successful GoFundMe campaign
One of the world’s most famous bookstores was forced to close because of the coronavirus outbreak and asked for help to pay the bills.
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When Thoreau went to walk in the Maine Woods
Scholars, conservationists and Penobscot Nation members retrace the famous transcendentalist’s route in this book of essays about his sojourns in the state.
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‘The Roxy Letters’ is just the kind of comic novel we need right now
An earnest heroine fights hard to keep Austin weird.