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Salman Rushdie’s ‘Victory City’ is a grand epic about a magical city — and a triumph over censorship

“Victory City” contains enough adventures and action to keep even the most demanding readers entertained, but it’s also the kind of novel that welcomes — no, that invites — introspection.
BIBLIOPHILES

Leila Philip on flash fiction and beavers

A Guggenheim fellow, Philip lives in Connecticut and teaches at the College of the Holy Cross.
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Thomas Mallon’s ‘Up With the Sun’ is a fictional biography of real-life actor Dick Kallman, replete with murder and celebrities

Mallon has a gift for mixing dogged research with a keen understanding of power and human foibles. He conjures empathy for the most despicable of characters.
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Mark Whitaker’s ‘Saying It Loud: 1966′ gives new insight into the Black Power movement

A history of activism challenges entrenched beliefs about the origins and intentions of the Black Power movement.
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I had no time to read for myself when my kids were babies. Now that’s changed, and bedtime will never be the same.

The unexpected joy of parenting a new reader, and reclaiming an old one.
New England Literary News

A pirate graphic novel, the BPL celebrates Black History Month, Brookline Booksmith expands event accessibility

Literary news from around the region.

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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Author readings around Boston Feb. 5-11

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

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Local bestsellers for the week ended Jan. 29

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

Linda Pastan, poet of concentrated beauty, dies at 90

Her late-in-life embrace of professional writing marked the end of a decade that she spent in the throes of an affliction she described as “the perfectly polished floor syndrome.”

Working on It

Broadway star Kristin Chenoweth’s new book, ‘I’m No Philosopher, But I Got Thoughts,’ delivers an authentic dose of sunny

Sprinkled with meditations, inspirational quotes, and personal travails, too, the book left this “Wicked” fan feeling lighter.

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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.

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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."

Related Reading

‘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.