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In Jane Smiley’s latest novel, two young women navigate sex work and detective work on the frontier

In Jane Smiley’s new novel, ‘A Dangerous Business,’ the author offers social commentary, in the form of a frontier mystery, on the perils of being a woman.
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Sam Lipsyte’s new novel “No One Left to Come Looking for You” captures a fast-fading, post-punk Gen X era set in the East Village

Sam Lipsyte’s "No One Left to Come Looking for You" captures a fast-fading, post-punk Gen X era set in the East Village.
BIBLIOPHILES

Kerri Maher, author of ‘The Paris Bookseller’ and other historical novels, takes a contemporary approach to reading

All my pleasure reading is on audio books these days, says the Weston resident, who teaches at Emerson.
BOOK REVIEW

In Kevin Wilson’s ‘Now Is Not the Time to Panic,’ remembering a summer of adolescent upheaval

While this fourth outing is flawed, it still rings with much of the visceral freshness of his earlier books and says something about art as well.
New England Literary News

‘A Woodblock Index’; poet and artist collaborations showcased in a new anthology of broadsides; and the winner of the Maya Angelou Book Award

Literary news from around the region.
Story Behind the Book

Protest and prose intertwine in ‘Cursed Bunny’

For South Korean author Bora Chung, protest is a way of life.

Here are the 20 new books we’re most excited to read this fall

As the summer of 2022 winds down, our attention turns to the books of fall. Here’s our list of 20 titles — from novels to memoirs, histories to biographies — you may want to check out.

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BOOKINGS

Author readings around Boston Dec. 4-10

All author appearances are in person and free unless otherwise noted.

BOOKS

Local bestsellers for the week ended Nov. 27

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

How capitalism crushed the environment, according to historian Douglas Brinkley

Brinkley, a professor of history at Rice University, is out with a weighty new book about the environmental movement that started — and was thwarted — as early as the 1960s.

Working On It

‘Anywhereists’ are free to live wherever they want, and there’s the rub

Melody Warnick’s new book, “If You Could Live Anywhere,” is for workers who are free to choose where they live.

BOOK REVIEW

Cormac McCarthy’s first novels in 16 years hold their own among his best work

In McCarthy’s new pair of novels, the universe remains hostile and unresolved, the author himself uncompromising.

BOOK REVIEW

A new study of John Singer Sargent views the painter through a 21st century lens

Paul Fisher, a professor of American studies at Wellesley and author of a collective portrait of the James family (“House of Wits”), continues the reappraisal of Sargent in “The Grand Affair,”

Bibliophiles

Netflix and poetry in Darryl Pinckney’s post-pandemic literary life

Pinckney recounts his long apprenticeship in his new memoir “Come Back in September: A Literary Education on West Sixty-Seventh Street, Manhattan.”

Story Behind the Book

Science and domestic life come together in Mary Beth Albright’s ‘Eat & Flourish’

What research tells us about food and mood.