Arts Review
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PublishedMay 3, 2020
‘Book of Longings’ has lasting power
Author Sue Monk Kidd makes an ambitious choice clear at the outset of her new novel – she's set it in biblical times when Jesus was in in his 20s and married.
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PublishedMay 3, 2020
Sixteen seaweeds add up to one fascinating read
In 'The Curious World of Seaweed,' Josie Iselin intertwines science, art, words and photos to mesmerizing effect.
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PublishedApril 26, 2020
A fiddler falls hard for a pretty Irish nanny in Civil War era America
In 'Simon the Fiddler,' author Paulette Jiles ably captures the texture of the American Southwest.
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PublishedApril 26, 2020
Book review: A 15-year-old girl has an affair with her teacher
In New York Times bestseller 'My Dark Vanessa,' the same girl, now grown up and her life a wreck, wrestles with what it meant.
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PublishedApril 19, 2020
An aspiring writer navigates writing and romance in Lily King’s latest
Though in crisis, 'Writers & Lovers' protagonist Casey Peabody refuses to give up on her creative dreams.
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PublishedApril 19, 2020
Alvarez returns with a stunning reflection on loss
Writer Julia Alvarez is back with her first novel in almost 15 years.
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PublishedApril 12, 2020
When Thoreau went to walk in the Maine Woods
Scholars, conservationists and Penobscot Nation members retrace the famous transcendentalist's route in this book of essays about his sojourns in the state.
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PublishedApril 12, 2020
‘The Roxy Letters’ is just the kind of comic novel we need right now
An earnest heroine fights hard to keep Austin weird.
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PublishedApril 5, 2020
The Portland went down in 1898. More than a century later, it still fascinates
The latest book to examine the maritime disaster, 'The Wreck of the Portland' does a reasonably good job, but how about giving other lesser-known wrecks a little attention?
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PublishedApril 5, 2020
‘The Red Lotus,’ a new novel with a pandemic plot, is both prescient and diverting
At the start of Chris Bohjalian's latest book, the boyfriend of an ER doctor disappears while the couple is vacationing in Vietnam. He's found dead, with mysterious wounds, leaving behind a series of puzzling lies.
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