fb-pixel Skip to main content

In ‘Land,’ Simon Winchester looks at what the hunger for land ownership has wrought

Few authors of narrative nonfiction have ranged across the global landscape more widely than Winchester. In his latest engrossing voyage, the author turns to the land itself, covering a sizable portion of the 37 billion acres that compose the Earth.

Essays on the magic and poetry of art and place by André Aciman

A slow stroll through entrancing capitals, a tender remembrance of rare old films, a fresh contemplation of Modernist literary giants — this describes the material of André Aciman’s new assortment of essays, but not the magic.

Paulette Jiles on reading about crime, action, and exploration

Readers first met, if briefly, the itinerant musician Simon Boudin in Jiles’s best-selling and critically acclaimed novel “News of the World.” In “Simon the Fiddler,” Jiles turns the spotlight on Boudin and follows him as he navigates the Civil War and its rocky aftermath in Texas.

A new children’s book about Ona Judge, new poetry by Martín Espada, and a biography of iconic Black feminist Dorothy Pitman Hughes

News of a literary bent from around the region.

BOOKS
Finding her way home after an international childhood
In "Aftershocks," author Nadia Owusu chronicles her search for community and a sense of belonging.

Filmmaking and farces in William Boyd’s ‘Trio’
An alcoholic writer, an American actress, and a sexually questioning producer: these three are the eponymous “Trio” is Boyd’s antic new novel, set in 1968 in the famous British seaside resort that Elfrida describes as “the Las Vegas of England.” The book, which centers on a film shoot, is festooned with offbeat ancillary characters.

Latest Headlines in Books

Virtual author readings January 17-23

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

BOOKS

Local bestsellers for the week ending January 10

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

Thinking about not drinking? These authors can inspire your journey

Moderate drinkers looking to quit can find inspiration in the burgeoning quit-lit genre.

BOOKS

Braving the cold (and bears) to chronicle history in ‘Icebound’

Andrea Pitzer set out on three 21st-century Arctic voyages herself to re-create, and then to relate, the heroic late-16th-century efforts of William Barents, the Dutch navigator and explorer who undertook the most northerly sea expeditions ever mounted at the time.

A new biography untangles Graham Greene

In “The Unquiet Englishman,” author Richard Greene (no relation) has no hesitation about placing Graham Greene among the century’s most august.

A holiday turns rainy, then scary in Sarah Moss’s ‘Summerwater’

In her seventh novel, Moss once again builds a sense that something awful is about to happen, even as she details the mundane activities of holiday makers.

Kevin Barry on reading during ‘wild and wintry’ nights

The Irish writer follows up his much acclaimed novel “Night Boat to Tangier” with a new collection of stories set in western Ireland, “That Old Country Music.”

A new book of plays by the Beat poet Gregory Corso, a children’s book by Boston cultural driver Candelaria Silva, and a bookstore giving back.

News of a literary bent from around the region.