Gigi Georges titled her new nonfiction book ‘Downeast: Five Maine Girls and the Unseen Story of Rural America.’ She might have called it True Grit.
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Tanzanian writer awarded Nobel Prize for Literature
Abdulrazak Gurnah was born in Zanzibar in 1948 and recently retired as a professor at the University of Kent in England.
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Book review: In a small Maine town, an act of arson leads to division and tragedy
Gregory Brown’s debut novel, ‘The Lowering Days,’ intertwines family drama with big questions of colonialism, ownership and environmentalism.
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‘Lean Fall Stand’ opens with a literal cliffhanger you won’t soon forget
After a gripping opening, Jon McGregor’s novel turns into a meditation on language and caregiving.
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Bedside table: Big questions about us, in brief
“I finally picked up ‘Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind’ by Yuval Noah Harari after my dad wouldn’t stop talking about it. And now I can’t stop talking about it. Harari’s frankness reels me in. His high-level, jam-packed recap of human’s (short) history on earth is impressive. In an odd way, the book has been […]
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‘Super Host’ considers the kindness – and curiousness – of strangers
A hard-up artist must rent out his house and move into his backyard shed in Kate Russo’s winning first novel.
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Bedside table: Challenging reading for challenging times
“Here is another good bedside read for these challenging times: ‘The Soul of America’ by Jon Meacham. Explores other very divisive times in our history: Civil War, reconstruction, Women’s suffrage, the (Great) Depression, World War I and World War II, Vietnam, civil rights, immigration. Gives us great perspective. On how challenging it is to maintain […]
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Padma Lakshmi has a new kids’ cookbook – and a fresh pandemic perspective
The “Top Chef” host discusses her cookbook, Twitter clapbacks and how to reform fussy eaters.
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In Roe, a messy family saga and complicated characters
Joshua Prager wants readers to rethink what they know about the landmark case.
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‘From the Mountains to the Sea’ offers a meticulous account of the restoration of the Penobscot River
A broad spectrum of people and groups came together with a common goal – and they actually got something done.
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