Books
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PublishedJanuary 1, 2020
Sonny Mehta, literary tastemaker who long reigned at Knopf, dies at 77
On his watch, six of the publishing house's writers won the Nobel Prize in literature.
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PublishedJanuary 1, 2020
New book brings more attention to Lewiston’s Somali community
Cynthia Anderson's "Home Now" offers a portrait of a city coping with an influx of immigrants and discovering in the process a path to a brighter future.
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PublishedJanuary 1, 2020
T.S. Eliot’s letters to muse will be unveiled after 60 years
Students, researchers and scholars can read the correspondence at Princeton University Library starting Thursday.
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PublishedDecember 29, 2019
Barack Obama reveals his favorite books of 2019
The former president's annual list includes titles from history, economics, literature and even some choices for sports fans.
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PublishedDecember 29, 2019
‘This Is Happiness’ a tale of a tiny corner of Ireland left behind by the modern world
Niall Williams' characters are the story, which is told through the eyes of 17-year-old transplant Noel Crowe.
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PublishedDecember 29, 2019
A new collection of short stories adeptly showcases Maine
Littoral Books' latest, 'North by Northeast: New Short Fiction by Writers from Maine and New England,' casts a wide net, from familiar locations to the state's legendary fog.
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PublishedDecember 28, 2019
Elisabeth Sifton, revered book editor and publisher, dies at 80
The mother of a Maine man also embarked on her own literary odyssey, writing about 'The Serenity Prayer,' attributed to her own father, the theologian Reinhold Niebuhr.
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PublishedDecember 25, 2019
Johanna Lindsey, master of romance novels, dies at 67
She sold more than 60 million copies in at least 12 languages – a book every eight seconds, Avon calculated in 1993.
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PublishedDecember 25, 2019
Elizabeth Spencer, prolific short-story writer and chronicler of the South, dies at 98
She often spent years crafting her novels, but 'The Light in the Piazza' was written in a single, cabin-feverish month in Montreal.
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PublishedDecember 24, 2019
‘Game of Thrones’ author George R.R. Martin opens bookstore in Santa Fe
The fantasy writer quietly opened Beastly Books last month in Santa Fe next to the movie theater he revived in 2013.
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