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Aleksandar Hemon’s ‘The World and All That It Holds’ conscripts readers into the war torn life and love of a queer Jewish apothecary turned soldier and survivor

The novel’s ability to perpetuate itself seems to come both from the fantastic virtuosity of the writing and from the wonderfully realized idea of the book.
BIBLIOPHILES

Andrea Wulf, author of ‘The Invention of Nature,’ on her love-hate relationship with her Kindle

Wulf says, "I am one of those terrible authors who reads on a Kindle because I travel so much."
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‘Reading Lolita in Tehran’ and other accounts of the oppression of women in Iran

Since the revolution, Iranian women have attempted to get the story of their oppression out to the world.
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Kathryn Ma’s ‘The Chinese Groove’ is a Dickensian journey set in an immigrant’s world

Ma’s mildly satirical novel follows 18-year-old Shelley Zheng as he navigates complicated social dynamics where nothing is as simple as it seems after moving from Gejiu, China, to San Francisco.
New England Literary News

Posthumously published poems from Malcolm Miller in ‘No!’; Hussain Ahmed’s ‘Soliloquy with the Ghosts in Nile’; and more.

Posthumously published poems from Malcolm Miller in “No!”; Hussain Ahmed's “Soliloquy with the Ghosts in Nile”; and more.
THE STORY BEHIND THE BOOK

Untangling complex narratives in ‘Brotherless Night’

“I’ve spent roughly half my life working on this book,” said V.V. Ganeshananthan, who embarked on the project at the start of 2004.

The best books of 2022

Of the countless wonderful titles published in 2022, here’s a highly subjective list of 55 we loved most in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and works for children and young adults.
The year’s best cookbooks showcase culture, connection — and even convenienceHere are the 20 new books we’re most excited to read this fall

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BOOKINGS

Author readings around Boston Jan. 29-Feb. 4

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

BOOKS

Local bestsellers for the week ended Jan. 22

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

Marion Meade, biographer of Dorothy Parker, dies at 88

Ms. Meade’s “Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This?” detailed the vibrant if difficult life of a major figure on the literary scene of the 1920s and ’30s.

Her debut novel was a bestseller. Then her agent told her to stop writing fiction. Now, Laura Zigman is back.

Cambridge writer Laura Zigman — a witty and sharp observer of relationships — could be the heroine of one of her own books.

BOOK REVIEW

A fragile island community faces destruction in Pulitzer Prize-winner Paul Harding’s ‘This Other Eden’

Harding took inspiration for his new novel from the true story of Malaga Island in Maine, whose mixed-race occupants were evicted in 1912.

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In Selby Wynn Schwartz’s ‘After Sappho,’ long-listed for the 2022 Booker Prize, the Greek poet empowers women artists to push against traditional boundaries

To call “After Sappho” a novel is to push the definition of “a novel” right to the window without technically going completely outside. It is unpredictable in form and mercurial in its structure. But it remains enthralling.

BIBLIOPHILES

Jayne Ann Krentz on her love of contemporary gothic and what was missing from Nancy Drew

As Amanda Quick, she writes historical romance-suspense. As Jayne Castle, she pens futuristic romance-suspense. Under her married name, she writes contemporary romance-suspense novels.

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Jonathan Carroll’s ‘Mr. Breakfast’ contemplates the roads not taken, with the help of a magical tattoo

People often look back at decisions made — about a job, a relationship, a relocation — and wonder how things might have turned out if they’d chosen differently.