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A radical roadmap, new medical memoir, and grants and fellowships awarded

A radical roadmap, new medical memoir, and grants and fellowships awarded.

Lacy Crawford’s memoir tells of a long-buried crime at St. Paul’s School

Lacy Crawford’s story is as common as a housefly. As a 15-year-old girl, she was sexually assaulted. Two older male students at St. Paul’s, the elite boarding school Crawford attended at the time, lured her to their room.

Gail Caldwell on friendship, feminism, and survival

“Bright Precious Thing” is a memoir that began as a series of essays.

Local bestsellers for the week ending June 28

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

BOOKS
On Poetry, Politics, and Candy Crush
In “Pelosi,” longtime political reporter Molly Ball charts the path that led House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to become one of the most powerful people in American politics.

BOOKS
Duchess Goldblatt: our imaginary friend
This month sees the publication of “Becoming Duchess Goldblatt,” an anonymously penned memoir chronicling the conception and history of Goldblatt the everyman’s 81-year old therapist, self-help guru, inspirational tweeter, and, as Duchess would have it, “One of the most important voices in American letters.”

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BOOKS

The congressional whirlwind that was Newt Gingrich

Newt Gingrich was a white tornado that roared through Washington at the end of the 20th century, blowing the roof off the Capitol, rearranging the furniture of the House, upending the customs of American public life.

BOOKINGS

Virtual author readings for July 5-11

A weekly calendar of literary events.

A Somali immigrant hopes his book for young adults will inspire others to tell their story

Abdi Nor Iftin had long dreamed of becoming American. His new life here brought an awakening to the inequities Black people and immigrants face.

In ‘Passage West,’ a cross-cultural American story set in the Golden State

Rishi Reddi's first novel is set more than a century ago in California’s Imperial Valley.

BOOKS

A question of choice in ‘Blue Ticket’

For millions of women around the world a thin blue line means one thing: “You’re pregnant.” Novelist Sophie Mackintosh cleverly subverts that trope in her new book.

BOOKS

Four Takes: The mysteries of fatherhood

If this year’s graduates have been under-celebrated, June’s other traditional honorees — fathers — have carried on much as usual. One notable difference has been the masks. Every father wears one figuratively of course; getting to know our fathers as people becomes the eventual work of the child.

BOOKS

Bibliophiles: James McBride on music, narrative, and reading on subways

The writer and musician describes himself as a storyteller, whether he’s playing saxophone or writing. Doing the latter, he’s published a best-selling memoir, “The Color of Water,” and won the 2013 National Book Award for fiction with “The Good Lord Bird.”

BOOKS

Tracing complicated entanglements of love and work in ‘Friends and Strangers’

In her new worthy but flawed novel, the relationship between employer and employee comes in for J. Courtney Sullivan’s special attention.