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Ailin Sha (center) won the Poetry Out Loud contest in Massachusetts, here with 2nd place finisher Calysa Alba (right) and third place finisher Anna Popnikolova (left).

Poetry Out Loud state champion headed to Washington, D.C.; Jane Yolen publishes anthology celebrating a kid’s world

A weekly digest of literary events from around the region

12 years, a docuseries, and one book later, author still looking for answers on 2011 Waltham triple murder

"This is the biggest crime story out of Boston in several decades," says journalist and "The Waltham Murders" author Susan Clare Zalkind.

THE STORY BEHIND THE BOOK

‘The Divorcées’ takes readers to a divorce ranch of the 1950s, where friendship is as treacherous as love

Author Rowan Beaird discusses the image of femininity on offer to the book’s characters.

BOOKINGS

Author readings around Boston through March 30

Beverly Jenkins, Emily Franklin, Tricia Rose, Ramie Targoff, Steve Cavanaugh, and Maggie Thrash are among the authors appearing at local bookstores and venues this week

BOOKS
Local bestsellers for the week ended March 17
Based on reporting from the independent booksellers of the New England Independent Booksellers Association and IndieBound.

BOOK REVIEW
Candida Royalle, cofounder of adult film company Femme, tried to bridge the divide between feminist and feminist
A new biography places the adult film actor of the ’70s and ’80s in the center of the war over pornography that pitted social conservatives and feminists against other feminists.

BOOK REVIEW
Elijah Wald shows us how the world used to sound in ‘Jelly Roll Blues,’ a rollicking history of forbidden early jazz
Unearthing the censored history of American folk and popular music — and the ways we learn about the past

BOOK REVIEW
‘Great Expectations’ dashed in Vinson Cunningham’s autofiction, based on Obama’s first presidential campaign
A young protagonist searches for authenticity behind the veneer of politics in a novel by The New Yorker’s theater critic.

Boston Globe book critics share their favorites from 2023.

BEST BOOKS OF 2023

Here is a list of 55 books we loved in 2023

Boston Globe book critics give us their favorites from a year of great titles

Here are 6 of our favorite poetry collections in 2023A dozen thrilling new page-turners to give you goosebumps this winter

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BIBLIOPHILES

Lisa Ko, author of ‘Memory Piece,’ believes paperbacks ‘are made to love’

On graphic novels, Don DeLillo, and making your books into time capsules 7:00 a.m.

Katya Apekina reconsidered her early experience as a Russian immigrant in writing her novel ‘Mother Doll’

She talks to the Globe about generational trauma, matryoshka dolls, and taking psychic classes 11:03 a.m.

In a 1996 image provided by Arcturus Motion Pictures, Mr. Breashears worked while filming the IMAX documentary “Everest,” which premiered two years later.

David Breashears, climber, cinematographer brought Mount Everest to the masses, dies at 68

Mr. Breashears, who summited Mount Everest five times, was the co-director and cinematographer of “Everest,” one of the most viewed IMAX documentaries in history. 5:42 p.m.

Writer Dan Wakefield, in Unitarian Church of All Souls in New York City in 2003.

Dan Wakefield, multifaceted writer on a spiritual journey, dies at 91

The prolific writer explored subjects as diverse as life in New York City in the 1950s, the American Civil Rights Movement, and the wounds that war inflicts on individuals and society. 12:40 p.m.

BOOK REVIEW

In Percival Everett’s ‘James,’ Jim from ‘Huckleberry Finn’ moves out of the shadows and into full personhood

Heir to Mark Twain’s satirical vision, Everett turns a boyhood memoir into a neo-fugitive slave narrative thriller. 8:00 a.m.

STORY BEHIND THE BOOK

Ramie Targoff gives voice to women writers of the Renaissance in ‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’

"People are recovering all kinds of voices," says the Brandeis professor. "We’re changing what history looks like. And I’m honored to be a part of that." 7:35 a.m.