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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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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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.
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The Portland went down in 1898. More than a century later, it still fascinates
The latest book to examine the maritime disaster, ‘The Wreck of the Portland’ does a reasonably good job, but how about giving other lesser-known wrecks a little attention?
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‘The Red Lotus,’ a new novel with a pandemic plot, is both prescient and diverting
At the start of Chris Bohjalian’s latest book, the boyfriend of an ER doctor disappears while the couple is vacationing in Vietnam. He’s found dead, with mysterious wounds, leaving behind a series of puzzling lies.
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Book review: Race, privilege and toilet duty: Life at Harvard for a black freshman in 1959
In ‘The Last Negroes at Harvard,’ Kent Garrett recalls his undergraduate days, and not fondly.
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Book review: In Tudor times, murder shadows the creation of magical stones
Bianca, the plucky heroine of ‘The Alchemist of Lost Souls,’ tries to unravel the crimes. In doing so, she puts herself in harm’s way.
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‘The Mirror and the Light’ is a masterful finale to Hilary Mantel’s Cromwell Trilogy
Mantel builds suspense by turning readers into alarmed onlookers as Cromwell meets his fate.