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‘The Soldier’s Truth,’ a biography of Ernie Pyle, chronicles the World War II correspondent’s efforts to connect the soldier’s experience of war to a distant public

With a column that ran in 400 daily newspapers and 300 weeklies, Pyle was, as David Chrisinger puts it in his new biography, “perhaps the most famous and most loved American war correspondent before or since.”
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Rachel Louise Snyder’s memoir ‘Women We Buried, Women We Burned’ recounts a dark past and holds out the possibility of transformation

The memoir chronicles Snyder’s gradual emergence from an awful adolescence into a more stable, and ultimately successful, adulthood, propelled by her passion and gift for writing.
BIBLIOPHILES

On the benefits of reading for work

Daphne Kalotay, back at her Somerville home after another school year teaching creative writing at Princeton University, is doing a series of events for her award-winning short story collection, “The Archivists: Stories.”
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Jane Wong’s ‘Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City’ is an intimate portrait of a working-class Chinese American family’s scars and glories

The author pairs her painfully specific knowledge of poverty, cultural dislocation, and discrimination with a poet’s conjuring skills and a sociologist’s research.
New England Literary News

Writers publish new bilingual edition of Vietnamese poet’s work; Boston Kids Comics Fest back in person; winners of Maine Literary Awards announced

Spotlighting “Dreaming the Mountain,” a new bilingual edition of Tuê Sy's poetry; a daylong comics festival; the pick of the week; and more.
BOOKS

The right book at the right time becomes a lifeline

I’m not suggesting that books are a panacea for mental illness; they’re not. But when you dedicate your life to reading, sometimes what you read can end up saving you. It saved me.

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 May 28-June 3

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

BOOKS

Local bestsellers for the week ended May 21

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

BOOK REVIEW

In R.F. Kuang’s ‘Yellowface,’ intellectual theft by a white writer unleashes hauntings of all kinds

The wildly entertaining novel works on multiple levels. It is at once an exploration of guilt, a celebration of writing, a look at cultural appropriation, diversity, and racism in publishing, a sharp deconstruction of social media’s impact on the writing world and a bizarre ghost story.

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Millennials, in Brandon Taylor’s ‘The Late Americans,’ confront a broken world through sex and theory

More mature than Taylor's Booker-nominated debut, “Real Life,” more polished than “Filthy Animals,” his third is a novel about the anxieties and pieties of grad students as they grapple with the art life and, more literally, each other.

BIBLIOPHILES

Burkhard Bilger on German Westerns and his favorite historical novels

The New Yorker writer's new book is “Fatherland: A Memoir of War, Conscience, and Family Secrets."

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‘King: A Life,’ Jonathan Eig’s deeply researched new MLK biography, reveals a man beset by insecurity and personal doubt but grounded in moral conviction

As Eig details, fame made Martin Luther King Jr.’s efforts often as much of a curse as a blessing. The biography forces readers to view King as more than a martyr, icon, or saint — to see him for who he was, instead of who people thought he was, or wanted him to be.

NEW ENGLAND LITERARY NEWS

A new memoir of recovery; Grub Street executive director wins award; a Maine author translates a Swedish poem

News about authors and books from around the region.

STORY BEHIND THE BOOK

Psychology professor Kay Redfield Jamison wants to broaden the notion of psychological healing

Her new book “Fires in the Dark: Healing the Unquiet Mind,” which she calls “a kind of love song to psychotherapy,” sprang from the inspiration she found at a dark time.