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Book fests in Massachusetts and Vermont feature literary luminaries, writing workshops

Jill Lepore, Celeste Ng, and Andre Dubus III are among the writers who will appear at the Concord Festival of Authors and the Brattleboro Literary Festival.

Laurels for a veteran editor, a bookshop catering to kids, and the children’s book written by a Harvard Medical School alum

A roundup of literary news of note around the region.

New biography ‘The Dead Are Arising’ humanizes Malcolm X without diminishing him

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Les Payne focuses his sharp investigative lens on the life of an enigmatic American icon whose life and death continue to fascinate.

For Kelli Jo Ford, short stories and Indigenous authors

The author weaves together the stories of three generations of Cherokee women in Oklahoma in her critically acclaimed debut novel “Crooked Hallelujah.”

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Don DeLillo’s ‘Silence’ ponders an offline world
DeLillo’s seventeenth novel is an investigation into what remains of contemporary life when the technological advances that have permeated much of society no longer exist.

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Seeing the tortoise and the hare in ‘The Zealot and the Emancipator’
John Brown and Abraham Lincoln were two of the central figures in the destruction of slavery. Their stories were parallel lines, never intersecting. And yet they exerted irresistible force on each other, power that combined to end a blight on the country.

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Pre-Columbian history meets Indigenous Futurism in a new novel by Rebecca Roanhorse

'Black Sun' is set in an imaginary world drawn from a variety of Indigenous cultures.

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Local bestsellers for the week ending October 11

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

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Virtual author readings Oct. 18-24

All of these events take place online; visit the venue website for more information.

‘Keep Moving’ offers words of hope for troubled times

Maggie Smith's new book is about using anger and grief as fuel to keep going.

Poet Jane Hirshfield on bearing witness to the beauty of an imperiled world

With "Ledger," Hirshfield mates the emotional with scientific fact.

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‘JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956’ revives JFK’s youth

Why do we need yet another biography of John F. Kennedy? The short answer: Because this book is very good.

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The new John Banville is a departure of sorts

The Booker Prize-winning novelist's latest, “Snow,” is his first detective novel to be published under his own name, and it’s an interesting, if not entirely successful, departure from form.

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Reconsidering John Steinbeck in ‘Mad at the World’

William Souder’s concise new biography argues persuasively that the writer’s politics consisted primarily of a hatred for bullies.