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Your Summer Beach Bag

10 great New England beach reads, from old standbys to new classics

These books with ties to the region — including memoir, romance, and crime — will keep you turning pages all summer.
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Adrienne Brodeur’s debut novel ‘Little Monsters’ explores the unraveling of a family and its secrets on the Cape

This smart, page-flipping novel has more secrets than you could successfully hide from your Sunday school teacher.
BOOKS

Mike Curato, author of ‘Flamer,’ one of the country’s most challenged books, on the ultimate cost of book bans

Book banners talk a big game. They say they are protecting the children, or that we’re peddling porn. They make misleading accusations based on passages taken out of context.
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Thea Glassman’s ‘Freaks, Gleeks, and Dawson’s Creek’ gives a seminal era of teen TV shallow treatment

Glassman proves a sharp observer of teen shows of the last 30 years. She also proves a gush-prone fan, and these two qualities — critical observation and gee-whiz fervor — don’t always get along.
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Jenny Xie on crying at books and organizing your shelves

Xie is a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree for 2023, as well as a contributing writer for Architectural Digest, Apartment Therapy, and Dwell, where she was formerly the executive editor.
NEW ENGLAND LITERARY NEWS

Exhibition catalog essays explore the power of watercolors; the joy and community of soccer in new book by Somerville author; Boston Review announces 2023-24 fellows

Spotlighting “American Watercolors, 1880-1990: Into the Light”; “Soccer Grannies: The South African Women Who Inspire the World”; the Boston Review's third class of Black Voices in the Public Sphere fellows; and more.

The best books of 2022

Of the countless wonderful titles published in 2022, here’s a highly subjective list of 55 we loved most in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and works for children and young adults.
The year’s best cookbooks showcase culture, connection — and even convenienceHere are the 20 new books we’re most excited to read this fall

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THE STORY BEHIND THE BOOK

In ‘Rivermouth,’ Alejandra Oliva’s translation work with asylum seekers involves more than just language

The book covers the debut author's experiences volunteering with an asylum clinic in New York in 2017 and with asylum seekers in Tijuana, Mexico, in January 2019, during her winter break from Harvard Divinity School.

BOOKINGS

Author readings around Boston June 25-July 1

All author appearances are in person and free unless otherwise noted.

BOOKS

Local bestsellers for the week ended June 18

Based on reporting from the independent booksellers of the New England Independent Booksellers Association and IndieBound.

BOOK REVIEW

In ‘Rocky Mountain High,’ Finn Murphy’s brief stint in the Wild West of the cannabis industry yields no riches except stories

With savvy and sass, Murphy’s narration traces his 13 months in the industrial hemp business from the initial purchase of a 36-acre farm in Boulder County, Colo., to the dispersal of a lot of expensive equipment at fire-sale prices.

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Jane Smiley’s essay collection ‘The Questions that Matter Most’ features the writer’s constant pursuit of self-education

Focuses range far. Yet all feel connected by Smiley’s remarkable vision, conveyed in crystalline language. While you may favor some over others, every one of these essays rewards a look.

BIBLIOPHILES

Victor Luckerson on reading as a bridge in a long-distance relationship

The author also talks about being taught to read and inspired to write by his grandmother.

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Jenny Erpenbeck, in ‘Kairos,’ tracks the political evolution of Germany through the intimacies of an ill-fated affair

The enthralling and intricate novel about German reunification considers the East-West divide from 1986 to 1992 via the relationship of Katharina and Hans.

New England Literary News

Debut poetry collection by Concord poet; Vermont’s Bookstock festival is back; horses take spotlight at Eric Carle Museum exhibition

Highlighting Jennifer Funk's “Fantasy of Loving the Fantasy,” a festival's return to Woodstock, Vt., the exhibit “Horse Tales: Galloping into Children’s Books,” and more.