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A speed-reading archaeologist digs in to catch up

TED Prize-winner Sarah Parcak discusses her new book Tuesday at the Museum of Science

Greater Boston author readings July 21-27

A roundup of literary events in the area.

Location, location, location

On the 50th anniversary of an American landing on the moon, four books take us back to Earth to expore some of our country’s own strange and wonderful places.

Bodies in detail, Kipling in Vermont, and Shakespeare in the park

The latest news from the New England literary scene.

Local bestsellers for the week ending 7/14
A list of bestsellers based on reporting from the independent booksellers of the New England Independent Booksellers Association and IndieBound.

the story behind the book | kate tuttle
‘Body Leaping Backward’ required a long look into her past
Author Maureen Stanton reads at Porter Square Books on Thursday

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Buzzy ‘Three Women’ makes for a cryptic triptych

Lisa Taddeo’s deeply reported portrait of female desire isn’t really about that at all.

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‘The Reluctant Prince’ looks fondly back on the life of JFK Jr. 

Historian Steven M. Gillon offers a compassionate and comprehensive reminiscence of JFK Jr.

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In Pulitzer-winner Colson Whitehead’s ‘The Nickel Boys,’ a childhood lost to Jim Crow

The author has again found dark inspiration in an overlooked corner of our nation’s history.

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Professor and clinician Sharon Lamb explores how mothers mother

Sharon Lamb reads from “The Not Good Enough Mother” on Friday at Belmont Books.

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‘The Ghost Clause’ peers through the walls of loss and memory

Howard Norman writes a different kind of ghost story.

New England Literary News | Nina MacLaughlin

Three new books take on the personal and the political 

The latest news from the New England literary scene

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A mother and an intruder in Helen Phillips’s ‘The Need’

“The Need”-ditation on motherhood. 

BIBLIOPHILES

From suitcases tied with rope to a room packed with books

Poet Charles Simic’s newest collection is “Come Closer and Listen: New Poems”


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