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On the rights of women 25 years after the Beijing Declaration on Women

Looking inside "The Right to Be Elected," "Launching While Female," "She Proclaims," "No Stopping Us Now," and more.

Claudia Rankine on race, reading, and conversation

Given the mass demonstrations over police violence against Black people plus a president bent on widening the country’s deep racial divide, the author’s new book, “Just Us: An American Conversation,” could not be timelier.

‘Conditional Citizens’ looks at what it means to belong here

Laila Lalami’s new book is an argument for active, equal United States citizenship. Drawing on her considerable talents and abundant intelligence, Lalami attempts to account for the ways that powerful American forces use class status, religion, border policing, national origin, non-whiteness, and gender to diminish and deactivate full citizenship.

‘JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century’ dives deep on the 35th president

Harvard historian Fredrik Logevall situates the rise of a president within the rise of a nation.

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Music history, in a minor key, in ‘Adrianne Geffel’
David Hajdu knows music. It makes sense, therefore, that the biographer of Billy Strayhorn (“Lush Life”) and chronicler of both pop (“Love for Sale”) and folk music scenes (“Positively 4th Street”) would set his first work of fiction in this artistic milieu.

Local bestsellers for the week ending September 13
Bestsellers based on reporting from the independent booksellers of the New England Independent Booksellers Association and IndieBound.

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Virtual author readings for Sept. 20-26

A list of readings taking place in the Boston area.

New England Literary News

News of a literary bent from around the region. This week's news includes new poetry from Dan Chiasson, a graphic novel about the US Constitution, and a virtual fund-raiser for the Mass Poetry Society.

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How the book industry is weathering the COVID-19 storm

Publishing in a pandemic has meant selling online, delivering curbside, touring virtually, being OK with delays, and "reinventing the wheel every day."

20 books we’re excited for this fall

A list of some of the most promising books on the horizon.

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Thrilling to the magic inside the house in ‘Piranesi’

Susanna Clarke’s singular wit and imagination remain intact in a compressed yet still captivating tale you’ll want to delve into again right after you read its sublime last sentence.

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Pondering death and intimacy in ‘What Are You Going Through’

Sigrid Nunez’s new novel considers the big questions.

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A glimpse of Rushdie’s children in ‘Homeland Elegies’

“Passionate, Disturbing, Unputdownable” is how the author Salman Rushdie describes Ayad Akhtar’s latest novel in a blurb. Indeed, the book, which scampers between memoir and fiction, is all of these things.

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In ‘Impersonation,’ a single mom steps into the world of high-powered feminism

Heidi Pitlor's third novel features "a person with privilege working with a person without privilege.”