Henry Louis Gates Jr. chronicles the nation’s long history of racial fear and white resentment

Two award-winning directors will team up to adapt Michele McPhee’s “Maximum Harm.”

Carly Simon is writing an “intimate, vulnerable” memoir about a very famous friend, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.

John Bradley, who plays Samwell Tarly, hinted to the “60 Minutes” reporter that fans might not be thrilled with the ending.

The plotlines of the show have long since shot past what’s in George R.R. Martin’s books, whose own finale may be many years away.

Lorenz J. Finison’s engaging new book is “Boston’s Twentieth-Century Bicycling Renaissance.”

Susan Choi’s thrilling novel slowly draws the curtain on what appeared to be just high-school drama

Award-winning poet Major Jackson’s most recent collection is “Roll Deep.”

Nathan Englander’s new novel “kaddish.com’’ is a satiric deliberation on faith, ritual, and mortality.

Well-known in Europe, Ana Luísa Amaral’s second book to be published in the US is “What’s In a Name?”

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Ahead of the East Coast premiere of Boston Lyric Opera’s “The Handmaid’s Tale,” the celebrated author will discuss the impact of her influential 1985 novel and its cultural resurgence on May 4.

The book will chronicle the Bulger investigation, his eventual capture, and details from Bulger’s final hours.

Moore has signed on to star in King’s new TV series, based on his hit novel “Lisey’s Story.”

Other readers at BU include Ha Jin, Robert Pinsky, Leslie Epstein, Nicole Sealey, and Neshat Khan

Flickers of supernatural lighten staggering loss in Nell Freudenberger’s brainy and endearing third novel, “Lost and Wanted.”

Christina Thompson’s magnificent new book is “Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia.”

Jennifer duBois’s new novel is “The Spectators.”

Siri Hustvedt’s newest novel is “Memories of the Future.”

Short-story master Amy Hempel’s new collection, “Sing To It,’’ is her first in more than a decade.

“Elements of Family Style” is the designer and author’s second book.

A limited series based on Mitchell Zuckoff’s “Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11” is in the works for 2021.

“The Adventures of Riley the Museum Dog,” a coproduction of the MFA and the Globe, will go on sale April 4.

The “Blue Bloods” actress talks about getting through a particularly painful time in her new book, “Our Shoes, Our Selves: 40 Women, 40 Stories, 40 Pairs of Shoes.”

Film crews for “Defending Jacob” were spotted in Wellesley and Hudson.

Priests at a Catholic parish in northern Poland have burned books, including the “Harry Potter” series, and other items that their owners said had evil forces.

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The Newton designer who writes the Elements of Style blog jumped at the chance to transform a house that she had admired from afar.

Ytasha Womack is the author of “Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci-Fi & Fantasy Culture.”

Capsule reviews of “Go, Went, Gone’’; “The Lightless Sky’’; “The Book of My Lives’’; “Adua’’

Miriam Toews explores patriarchal politics in “Women Talking,’’ her novel based on actual events.

“American Moonshot’’ peers through the gauzy haze enveloping a project that defined and united a nation.

Lori Gottlieb’s new book is “Maybe You Should Talk to Someone.”

Grace Talusan’s new finely-wrought and eloquent memoir is “The Body Papers.”

It’s one thing for a King work to be adapted. What may be even more impressive is that there have been several remakes of King adaptations. The latest example, “Pet Sematary,” opens April 5.

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Westover is best known for 2018’s “Educated,” her bestselling memoir about overcoming her oppressive childhood.

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Joan Biskupic’s biography of the chief justice comes as interest in the Supreme Court is sky high.

Pulitzer finalist Laila Lalami’s fourth novel is “The Other Americans.”

Namwali Serpell’s wonderfully chaotic debut novel is “Old Drift.’’