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BOOK REVIEW

Guns, guns, guns in ‘The Tomorrow Game’

After the mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, much of the discourse — and not a little of the hope for action — was animated by the horrifying revelation that in 2020, gun violence was the leading cause of death among American children and teens. A new book looks at how that happens.
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Ed Yong on reading for science and soul

To each and every species, the world is a different place. Ed Yong explores that kaleidoscope of experiences in his new book “An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us.” A staff writer at the Atlantic, Yong won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of COVID-19 for the magazine. He talked with us about his own reading.
BOOK REVIEW

Hateship, loveship, friendship in ‘Fellowship Point’

“A handful of names and a street map.” That’s what one admired author once told me you needed to write a novel. If so, Alice Elliott Dark’s powerful, enchanting “Fellowship Point” takes that maxim into the stratosphere.
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A mole and a vole head to the big city in ‘Expedition Backyard’

The early-reader graphic novel, written by Rosemary Mosco and illustrated by Binglin Hu, finds wonder in nature.
NEW ENGLAND LITERARY NEWS

A poetic look at neighborhoods, an authors’ series on the Vineyard, and an honor for poet Sonia Sanchez

All the news of a bookish bent from around the region.
BOOK REVIEW

‘Under the Skin’ examines racism as a public health emergency

Linda Villarosa studies how ‘the lived experience of being Black in America’ can make people sick.

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BOOKINGS

Author readings around Boston July 3-9

All author appearances are virtual and free unless otherwise noted.

BOOKS

Local bestsellers for the week ended June 26

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

BOOK REVIEW

In short pieces, Hilary Mantel recalls her difficult past

In her newest book, British author Hilary Mantel turns her famous focus inward, exploring her own development as an author and her contentious relationship with the English language in six semi-autobiographical short stories and one essay.

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Building a library for a better life

As she recounts in her memoir, “The Ugly Cry: How I Became a Person,” TV writer Danielle Henderson grew up Black in a mostly white town under the wing of a foul-mouthed, ferocious grandmother. Henderson also wrote “Feminist Ryan Gosling,” a book based on her popular blog. She talked with us about what she's been reading.

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Twilight of the white guys

New books by Tad Friend and Bill McKibben trace the contours of lives played out in an era of great change.

BOOK REVIEW

Regeneration and time travel

Lidia Yuknavitch's book takes place across time, swimming between an imaginable and not too distant future fifty-plus years from now when boat tours bring sightseers to the almost completely submerged Statue of Liberty, swallowed up by rising seas. Then we are taken into the past.

NEW ENGLAND LITERARY NEWS

Poetic postcards to share, a book about a book-maker, and a call to re-read Frederick Douglass

All the bookish news from around the region.

STORY BEHIND THE BOOK

Remembrance and reclamation in ‘We Refuse to Forget’

Oklahoma-raised journalist Caleb Gayle tells "A True Story of Black Creeks, American Identity, and Power."