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Book Review: A Life Lived at the Boomer Crossroads

September 9, 2026
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Robert Dattoli’s “Boomer Madness” recounts a picaresque journey through sex, drugs, work, protest, and the cultural upheavals of postwar America—but its reflections on the generation often prove less compelling than its adventures.

Children’s Book Reviews: Hurray for Books!

September 8, 2026
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Two lively picture books invite children to discover the creativity, collaboration, and wonder behind the books they love.

Book Review: “Bad Energy” Makes a Forceful Case Against Green Capitalism

September 8, 2026
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By Ed Meek Joshua Frank offers an incisive account of the environmental and human costs of “green” development — even if his sweeping skepticism leaves readers wondering what practical climate action should look like. Bad Energy: The AI Hucksters, Rogue Lithium Extractors, and Wind Industrialists Who Are Selling Off Our Future by Joshua Frank. Haymarket…

Book Review: The Wild, Dirty, Dignified World of Garbage Collection

September 7, 2026
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This book is the best travelogue you’ll ever read about a terrible place you’ll never want to visit but want to experience vicariously.

Book Review: The Contradictory Voice of W.H. Auden

September 5, 2026
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Peter Ackroyd’s breezy biography captures the poet’s divided nature—but leaves his political and poetic reversals largely unexplored.

Book Review: Sofonisba Anguissola and the Art of Attribution

September 3, 2026
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In a revised study of the celebrated sixteenth-century painter, Michael W. Cole traces how family support, artistic training, and scholarly revision shaped her legacy.

Local Author Interview: Tom Perrotta on “Ghost Town,” Grief, and the Perils of Nostalgia

September 2, 2026
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In a new novel set in a 1970s New Jersey suburb, the Belmont-based author revisits childhood, racial segregation, masculine stoicism, and a past that cannot be remembered honestly without its shadows.

Book Review: The Enigmatic Miniatures of Diane Williams’s “I Liked Rex”

September 1, 2026
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These micro-fictions can feel slight, funny, or confounding—but their strange imagery and off-kilter observations occasionally land with surprising force.

Book Review: “The Black Shield” — A Family’s Reckoning with Policing and Power

August 24, 2026
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Wilbert L. Cooper examines the paradox of Black police officers seeking safety and status inside an institution shaped by racial violence.

Book Review: “The Eighth Wonder” Traps a Drifting Man in a Dream of Doubt

August 23, 2026
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In Vlady Kociancich’s newly translated Argentine novel, an indecisive Buenos Aires lawyer wanders through Berlin, cinema, erotic fantasy, and a reality that may be entirely of his own making.

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