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Too often, “Lioness” reads like a digest of Boston tourist guides and historical surveys, at times even seeming to quote them directly.
If you want to see how Earth’s oceans are coping with global warming, what better way than to sail around the world for 15 years — and have a little fun doing it?
Poet Ann Lauterbach’s eleventh book contains a challenging invitation: poems that offer fresh perceptions of life’s beautiful enigmas.
Biographer John Szwed proves masterly at decoding even Harry Smith’s zaniest works and he’s excellent at offering us the narrative of Smith’s raggedy and colorful life. “The Life and Times” is a very good read.
In this book, Cedric G. Johnson perceptively sees that our current emphasis on identity politics is a troublesome diversion in which various groups treat improvements as a zero-sum game.
“I was in a dominant position, and I used the weapons of that dominance, whose fragility, in a romantic relationship, I nonetheless recognized.”
When “The Secret Hours” flares up – notably on two separate, devastating occasions – the story delivers more emotional heft than Mick Herron’s previous books.
A new YA book about John Lennon and Paul McCartney will help fans know more about the friendship that changed pop culture.
The truth is the Beatles wouldn’t have been the Beatles without Abbey Road, and Abbey Road wouldn’t have been Abbey Road without the Beatles.
Book Appreciation: Celebrating Kate Atkinson’s “Life After Life” –The Best Novel of the 21st Century
In “Life After Life,” novelist Kate Atkinson has shown how boundless the imagination can be.
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