Grammy Award winning singer-songwriter James Taylor is creating an audio memoir called “Break Shot” to be released on Audible in early 2020, the company announced Thursday.
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Mia De La Rocha joined forces Monday with the state’s Department of Mental Health on a new program to target second- through fifth-grade students.
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In “Touched by the Sun,” Simon reveals an easy-going, playful side of Jackie: sneaking a smoke at the opera, playing in the waves, and having a crush on a much-younger actor.
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Lerner’s latest is a novel of ideas couched in the story of a family, albeit a highly ruminative family.
A federal judge ruled Saturday that former national security adviser John Bolton can move forward in publishing his tell-all book despite efforts by the Trump administration to block the release because of concerns that classified information could be exposed.
A federal judge on Friday criticized former Trump administration national security adviser John Bolton for moving to publish his book without formal clearance from the White House, but the judge suggested he was probably powerless to stop its release given that copies of the manuscript have already been widely distributed.
Woody Allen’s memoir, “Apropros of Nothing”, dropped by its original publisher after widespread criticism, has found a new home at Arcade Publishing.
Barnes & Noble is withdrawing a planned line of famous literature reissued with multicultural cover images that has been met with widespread criticism on social media.
Choi’s “Truth Exercise” won for fiction while Sandler’s book on the year 1919 took top honors for young people’s literature.
The story behind the ‘Spotlight’ movie
A look at The Boston Globe’s coverage of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church and the movie “Spotlight,” which is based on the stories and the reporters behind the investigation.
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19 must-read books for fall
This year brings big new biographies of Gorbachev, Grant, and FDR, pointed and personal political takes from Hillary Clinton and Ta-Nehisi Coates, and fiction from Jennifer Egan, Alice McDermott, James McBride, Louise Erdrich, and others.
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Kate Tuttle talks to "Astro-Poets" Dorothea Lasky and Alex Dimitrov ahead of their reading at Coolidge Corner Theatre on Tuesday.
The former national security adviser departed in September because of numerous foreign policy disagreements with President Trump. Bolton’s name has come up often recently during the House impeachment inquiry.
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In an exclusive excerpt from her new book, the actress, comedian, and Milton native recalls a childhood tale of smoke, spirits, and forbidden love.
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The event-planner extraordinaire has plenty of stories to tell.
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The author will appear in conversation with Joanna Rakoff on Wednesday evening at Belmont Books.
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Alexandra Jacobs’s new biography fleshes out our picture of the raspy-voiced actress and singer, who died in 2014 at 89.
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“Full Throttle” is Joe Hill’s new collection of 13 sinister tales, two of which he wrote with his father, Stephen King.
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The travel writer offers a complex, contradictory, empathetic picture of Mexico that couldn’t be more vital.
Mr. Bloom’s seminal “The Anxiety of Influence” and melancholy regard for literature’s old masters made him a standard-bearer of Western civilization amid modern trends.
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Your seasonal calendar of events, music, theater, and more.
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The magnificent sequel to “Olive Kitteridge” is bleaker, sadder, and more achingly beautiful than its predecessor.
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The author of ‘Holding On To Nothing’ will read at the BPL on Saturday, October 19, as part of the Boston Book Festival.
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In a pair of witty and informative books, Bill Bryson pops the hood on the human body and Tim Parks wanders deep into the fog of consciousness
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The ‘Lalani of the Distant Sea’ author will appear at the Boston Book Festival on October 20.
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“Unto This Last: Two Hundred Years of John Ruskin” observes the great critic’s bicentenary.
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The book that has Martin W. Sandler under consideration in the category of Young People’s Literature is “1919 The Year that Changed America.”
Marlon James fantasy novel “Black Leopard, Red Wolf,” Laila Lalami’s immigrant tale “The Other Americans” and Jason Reynolds’ neighborhood story “Look Both Ways” are among this year’s finalists for the 70th annual National Book Awards.
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"This Promise of Change" authors Debbie Levy and Jo Ann Allen Boyce were among those at The Boston Globe Horn Book Awards on Friday night.
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Singer/songwriter Liz Phair’s beautifully written memoir is a collection of small but critical epiphanies.
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Stephen and Tabitha King are ready for the next chapter for their Victorian mansion that stands behind a wrought iron gate festooned with winged creatures and spiderwebs.
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New York Times columnist Gail Collins comes to the Brattle Theatre on October 17 and the American Ancestors and New England Historic Genealogical Society on October 18.
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Imani Perry reads from “Breathe: A Letter to My Sons” on Friday at Harvard Book Store.
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In a brisk but far-reaching study, historian Eric Foner finds parallels between today’s political turmoil and those that marked the Reconstruction.
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The “Swing Time” author beguiles and bewilders with her first collection of short stories.
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The Boston Athenaeum solicited libraries of essential reading for the 21st-century.
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Jim Carrey has set his wild sights on the literary world.
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The chef didn’t expect a very special guest at her new restaurant this weekend. Then Roxane Gay showed up.
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Christopher Wylie, the whistle-blower at Cambridge Analytica, the data-mining firm linked to using social media for targeted political ads, has a book deal.
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M.J. Andersen gathers up four books driven by the complicated relationships of brothers and sisters
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Amy Sutherland talks books with the author of the Sheriff Walt Longmire mystery series, Craig Johnson.
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The bestselling author of “How to Change Your Mind” was in Boston Tuesday.
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The author of “Make it Scream, Make it Burn” comes to Brookline Booksmith on Monday and Harvard University on Tuesday.
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The author’s third novel is a beautifully paced, darkly incantatory tragicomedy on love, betrayal, and squandered chances.
The “Room” author returns with an odd little social experiment of a novel.
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The latest news from around the New England literary scene.
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The celebrated author went into his latest project as a skeptic. He didn’t expect to be so profoundly affected.
Winfrey selected Ta-Nehisi Coates’ novel “The Water Dancer” as her next book club pick.
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Author Kiese Laymon will discuss his memoir at Boston College’s Gasson Hall on Wednesday.
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Lovers of Dickens and Bronte will feel right at home in Ann Patchett’s intricate and alluring new novel
Things to Do
The Globe’s picks for the best ways to spend your weekend.