75 new books to add to your summer reading list
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Boston Book Festival announces keynote speakers for 2025
Among the lineup are Julia Quinn, Andrew Ross Sorkin, and more.
‘The Salt Path:’ A book that captured the hearts of millions, but now mired in controversy
"The Salt Path," a popular memoir, tells the story of how a woman and husband renewed themselves after financial ruin. But a recent investigation found fabrications in the story.
Fanny Howe, acclaimed writer of poetry and novels, dies at 84
Honored for her poetry and her fiction, Ms. Howe "was truly one of the great poets of Boston and Cambridge," said poet and professor Peter Gizzi.
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Author readings around Boston through July 19
All author appearances are in person and free unless otherwise noted.
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Local bestsellers for the week ended July 6
Based on reporting from the independent booksellers of the New England Independent Booksellers Association and IndieBound.
25 hot new paperbacks to read this summer, from page-turning thrillers to steamy romances
There’s something about a paperback book that demands to be taken along on a summer adventure.
BOOK REVIEW
Coming to an understanding of Indigenous identity, rooted on Martha’s Vineyard
Martha’s Vineyard is a place of otherworldly beauty, with grassy dunes and craggy clay cliffs that inspire rhapsodic American mythmaking. It's also the ancestral home to indigenous people, some of whom still live there.
In Lisa Smith’s ‘Jamaica Road,’ a sensitive portrayal of growing up Black in London
It is 1981 and Daphne is 12 years old when the proverbial stranger comes to town, the opening incident of Lisa Smith’s standout debut novel, “Jamaica Road.”