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BOOK REVIEW

In short pieces, Hilary Mantel recalls her difficult past

In her newest book, British author Hilary Mantel turns her famous focus inward, exploring her own development as an author and her contentious relationship with the English language in six semi-autobiographical short stories and one essay.
BIBLIOPHILES

Building a library for a better life

As she recounts in her memoir, “The Ugly Cry: How I Became a Person,” TV writer Danielle Henderson grew up Black in a mostly white town under the wing of a foul-mouthed, ferocious grandmother. Henderson also wrote “Feminist Ryan Gosling,” a book based on her popular blog. She talked with us about what she's been reading.
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Twilight of the white guys

New books by Tad Friend and Bill McKibben trace the contours of lives played out in an era of great change.
BOOK REVIEW

Regeneration and time travel

Lidia Yuknavitch's book takes place across time, swimming between an imaginable and not too distant future fifty-plus years from now when boat tours bring sightseers to the almost completely submerged Statue of Liberty, swallowed up by rising seas. Then we are taken into the past.
NEW ENGLAND LITERARY NEWS

Poetic postcards to share, a book about a book-maker, and a call to re-read Frederick Douglass

All the bookish news from around the region.
STORY BEHIND THE BOOK

Remembrance and reclamation in ‘We Refuse to Forget’

Oklahoma-raised journalist Caleb Gayle tells "A True Story of Black Creeks, American Identity, and Power."

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BOOKINGS

Author readings around Boston June 26-July 2

All author appearances are virtual and free unless otherwise noted.

BOOKS

Local bestsellers for the week ended June 19

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

Books

Sy Montgomery’s latest book delves into the wild world of hawks

“Dinosaurs did not become extinct,” says Sy Montgomery. “They just turned into birds.”

George Lamming, a Caribbean writer who explored the end of colonialism, dies

Mr. Lamming's calling was to address the crimes of history, unearth and preserve his native culture, and forge a “collective sense” of the future.

Jean-Louis Trintignant, French actor of powerful reserve, dies at 91

Mr. Trintignant achieved international renown in the 1960s and 1970s playing an amorous race car driver in “A Man and a Woman,” an enigmatic prosecutor in “Z,” and a closeted gay fascist assassin in “The Conformist.”

BOOK REVIEW

A daughter’s tale in ‘Also a Poet’

Ada Calhoun’s breezy, whip-smart new memoir, “Also a Poet,” draws on her childhood among the New York intellectual class. “While I was growing up, famous artists of the era huffed up those stairs to eat dinner around our table,” she writes.

BOOK REVIEW

Looking for home in ‘Hurricane Girl’

If I were a character in a Marcy Dermansky novel, I would drive fast down the highway, love orange cats, and be at once monumentally articulate about my inner emotional landscape and deeply estranged from my body. In her latest novel, Dermansky's protagonist starts by losing her house.

BIBLIOPHILES

He listens to gardening books while he gardens

Bill Roorbach’s new novel, “Lucky Turtle,” follows the wayward path of a delinquent teenager who lands in a reform camp in the Montana wilderness. The award-winning writer lives in Scarborough, Maine. He spoke with us about what he likes to read, and where he reads it.