“The Last Sacred Space of Poetry’’ will screen Aug. 25 at the Arlington Regent Theatre.

Julia Boyd’s “Travelers in the Third Reich” shows the extent to which reactions to the regime varied.

“Fly Girls’’ is Keith O’Brien’s true account of the almost unbelievable sport of air racing. 

Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich’s “The Fact of a Body: A Murder and A Memoir” blends true crime and memoir.

How a propulsive, fragmented series of (surprisingly absorbing) vignettes of history and life form a novel

Caspule reviews of “This Side of Paradise”; “The Idiot’’; “Commencement’’; and “Educated’’

Jimmy Fallon, Reese Witherspoon and Sarah Jessica Parker have all jumped on the trend.

The former White House staffer says she’s researched the topic and found a BU study linking consumption of diet beverages to increased chance of stroke and dementia.

Plagiarism claims dogged Sonya Larson’s “The Kindest,’’ which had been selected for the marquee session.

Following Dick Lehr’s 2003 Globe article, a man was freed after more than a decade in prison.

Mr. Naipaul penned comic masterpieces of island life before turning to the larger world, authoring richly detailed works on postcolonial states.

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“The Late Bloomers’ Club” tells the story of a local diner owner and her sister with filmmaking aspirations.

“This Mournable Body” follows middle-aged, once promising Tambu, erratically employed, and bitterly floundering.

Gilded Age history of American social climbers looking to marry aristocrats buried in debt.

Dani Shapiro’s upcoming memoir, “Inheritance,” revolves around ancestry, identity, and a family secret.

Jack E. Davis won the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction for “The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea.”

Wrenching, courageous tales of US fighters in Afghanistan and Iraq on missions with cloudy aims.

The movie arrives with big expectations from readers — and viewers.

An artist and physician have teamed up to change the conversation around the opioid epidemic.

‘‘The President is Missing,’’ a thriller co-written with James Patterson, has more than 1 million sales in North America alone.

The New Hampshire thriller writer thinks the murder victim might have been a movie extra.

Raising children shouldn’t rob us of joy. Here’s how one mother restored her sense of contentment.

As she did in her debut, Nell Stevens’s new book explores the interaction between novel and memoir.

The author’s books for children and young adults often dealt with serious subjects, including death, incest, war, famine, and slavery.

Green was marking the unofficial holiday that falls on the birthday of his late friend, Esther Grace Earl, the inspiration for his YA bestseller “The Fault in Our Stars.’’ 

Beyond Walls Mural Festival, QWERTY Festival, “As You Like It,” and more.

The recipients of the annual honor, which were announced last week, are recognized for career-long achievements in literature and culture.

The 70-year-old Spiegelman said he’s ambivalent about such awards, but acknowledged it’s a cool honor for a guy whose work was greatly influenced by Mad magazine.

In “The Third Hotel’’ Clare attends a horror film festival and sees her recently deceased husband everywhere.

The Russian-born author’s most recent book is the just-released novel “A Terrible Country.”

Susan Hand Shetterly’s “Seaweed Chronicles: A World at the Water’s Edge’’  is out this week.

“Immigrant, Montana” explores the main character’s unstable cultural identity and his uncertainty as to what he’s even doing in the United States.

“The Tangled Tree’’ tells a story of discovery that has changed our view of life.

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HARDCOVER

The intrepid flier was a Boston social worker struggling to make ends meet when she got the phone call in 1928. They were looking for a woman who could fly — and who was willing to risk her life.

If you thought the author’s interest in the Winklevoss twins ended with “The Accidental Billionaires,” his 2009 book about the creation of Facebook — think again.

“Rebar and Case” springs from the moment when the famed artist’s practice slammed into the brick wall of the Chinese government.

The former “Apprentice” villain will dish her time working on the Trump campaign and then as the administration’s director of communications for the office of public liaison.

Journalist Allison Yarrow finds a trend toward reducing women to a set of stereotypes.