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ā€œSaving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock,ā€ Jenny Odell’s subtle, itinerant study of time, feels like an attempt to break through the language of power and find something approaching coexistence, writes Annalisa Quinn.buff.ly/41AhxTo

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ā€œBirnam Woodā€ by Eleanor Catton is a grand, chilling thriller tightly bound by inescapable concerns. Make no mistake: It’s a book that grips you by the throat until its final paragraph. Catton scorches the earth with her prose, writes Lauren LeBlanc. buff.ly/3y6PBsO

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In ā€œEjaculate Responsibly: A Whole New Way to Think About Abortion,ā€ Gabrielle Blair makes her case for reducing unplanned pregnancies — and therefore reducing abortions — in a series of 28 arguments ranging from the biological to the societal. buff.ly/3J8x9X8

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New England literary news: A history of the T and beyond in new book by Lowell native, a new poetry collection celebrates the connections of nature, and MacDowell artist colony hires new executive director. buff.ly/3SLL2xy

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In "Liliana’s Invincible Summer," Cristina Rivera Garza gives a searing account of grief and the quest to bring her sister’s murderer to justice years after the fact, writes Hamilton Cain. buff.ly/3YiVC0f

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11 Years after "Defending Jacob," Newton’s @williamlanday is back with a new Boston-set crime thriller ā€œAll That is Mine I Carry With Me." buff.ly/3kUA6RX

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Nancy Hopkins and her colleagues challenged a culture of male dominance at MIT in the 1990s — and won, writes Ellen Ruppel Shell. Kate Zernike’s "The Exceptions" tells us how. buff.ly/3l6haQ0

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In ā€œHappily: A Personal History — with Fairy Talesā€ Sabrina Orah Mark looks to stories of elves, talking animals, dragons, and magic to explain her own life as well as the off-kilter world around her. buff.ly/424MjUA

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An eccentric matriarch takes in the family black sheep in Cathleen Schine’s tender "Kunstlers in Paradise," writes Priscilla Gilman. buff.ly/41WDKvf

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Idra Novey’s ā€œTake What You Needā€ does not skirt gritty subjects. Concerned with characters who fall outside easily defined categories, it tackles big questions — like what qualifies as art — and the aching human need to be seen, writes Jeffrey Ann Goudie. buff.ly/3FfINNp

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John Sayles has not only been prolific but also unpredictable across his 93 acting, writing, and directing credits and many works of fiction. The newest example is his just-published novel, ā€œJamie MacGillivray: The Renegade’s Journey." buff.ly/3TqjKx8

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After the rise of anti-Asian hate in March 2021, Bowdoin College English professor Zahir jayi added more books by Asian American writers to his syllabus, including ā€œSo Many Olympic Exertionsā€ by Annelise Chen. buff.ly/3ZWpEZm

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ā€œThe Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War,ā€ Jeff Sharlet's fifth book, is a foreboding drive through the backroads of the country’s rising militancy, writes XIII the great. buff.ly/3yLOqiN

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This Rhode Island author has two personalities: Jessica Olien — who’ll win you over with her adorable characters like the misunderstood ā€œBlobfishā€ — and Jessa Maxwell, writer of the mystery ā€œThe Golden Spoon,ā€ where someone turns up dead. buff.ly/3JFRD8B

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In "Dust Child," Nguyį»…n Phan Quįŗæ Mai uses a silken touch in a tale of those left behind after the occupation of Vietnam. buff.ly/42QOVpR

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"Once We Were Home," by National Jewish Book Award finalist Jennifer Rosner, conjures the ravaged inner terrain of children displaced by World War II. buff.ly/3FRwmIa

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Blythe Roberson gives the classic white male genre — the road trip — a comedic, female, millennial spin in her new book ā€œAmerica the Beautiful?: One Woman in a Borrowed Prius on the Road Most Traveled.ā€ buff.ly/3M3dyJO

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The heroine of Victor LaValle’s western gothic "Lone Women" wrestles with a horror from her past, writes @JoshundaSanders. buff.ly/3KlXe5G

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"While I’ve never read Louise Penny or seen a single episode of 'Law & Order,' maybe there is a part of me that itches for a mystery," writes Lauren LeBlanc. "After all, the one book I’ve read more than any other is 'The Westing Game.'" buff.ly/419m5zl