Furry Buddies
Open to ages 6-14. Registration required. Read a story to therapy dogs, Erin, Kody, Fritz, and Frieda, who love sharing stories with children. All programs subject to change or cancellation.
Book Review: ‘Small Mercies,’ by Dennis Lehane
Lehane’s new novel, “Small Mercies,” sets a crime story against the backdrop of the city’s school busing battles of the 1970s.
Book Review: ‘Small Mercies,’ by Dennis Lehane
Lehane’s new novel, “Small Mercies,” sets a crime story against the backdrop of the city’s school busing battles of the 1970s.
Book Review: ‘Walking With Sam,’ by Andrew McCarthy
In “Walking With Sam,” the actor and travel writer Andrew McCarthy looks back on an epic adventure.
Book Review: ‘Walking With Sam,’ by Andrew McCarthy
In “Walking With Sam,” the actor and travel writer Andrew McCarthy looks back on an epic adventure.
Book Review: ‘The Lost Sons of Omaha: Two Young Men in an American Tragedy,’ by Joe Sexton
In “The Lost Sons of Omaha,” the journalist Joe Sexton investigates a saga of death that occurred in Nebraska during the racial unrest after the killing of George Floyd.
Book Review: ‘The Lost Sons of Omaha: Two Young Men in an American Tragedy,’ by Joe Sexton
In “The Lost Sons of Omaha,” the journalist Joe Sexton investigates a saga of death that occurred in Nebraska during the racial unrest after the killing of George Floyd.
Book Review: ‘Retrospective,’ by Juan Gabriel Vásquez
“Retrospective,” a novel by Juan Gabriel Vásquez, takes the film director Sergio Cabrera as its subject.
Book Review: ‘Retrospective,’ by Juan Gabriel Vásquez
“Retrospective,” a novel by Juan Gabriel Vásquez, takes the film director Sergio Cabrera as its subject.
Book Review: ‘Professor Schiff’s Guilt,’ by Agur Schiff
In “Professor Schiff’s Guilt,” an Israeli novelist becomes embroiled in a case involving his slave-trading ancestor.
Book Review: ‘Our Migrant Souls,’ by Héctor Tobar
“Our Migrant Souls,” the author’s first nonfiction book in nearly a decade, is a deeply personal meditation on Latino American experience.
Book Review: ‘Professor Schiff’s Guilt,’ by Agur Schiff
In “Professor Schiff’s Guilt,” an Israeli novelist becomes embroiled in a case involving his slave-trading ancestor.
Book Review: ‘Our Migrant Souls,’ by Héctor Tobar
“Our Migrant Souls,” the author’s first nonfiction book in nearly a decade, is a deeply personal meditation on Latino American experience.
'Wild Dances' puts consequences of a long-ago, faraway conflict at center
By ingeniously weaving improbable and conflicting forces that make up his personal history, Eurovision expert William Lee Adams affirms an idea of home that yearns to transcend space and time.
(Image credit: Astra House)
Yarnbenders Crochet and Knitting Club
Yarnbenders Crochet and Knitting Club. Open to ages 9 and older. Enjoy crafting with friendly folk. All skill
levels welcome. All programs are subject to change or cancellation.
Pulitzer Prizes 2023: A Guide to the Winning Books and Finalists
Hernan Diaz and Barbara Kingsolver each received a fiction prize, and the Washington Post journalists Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa won the nonfiction prize for “His Name is George Floyd.”
Ronald Steel, Critic of American Cold War Policies, Dies at 92
In essays and books. he saw the U.S. postwar era as a series of misadventures spawning unwise wars. He also wrote the definitive biography of the journalist Walter Lippmann.
'Red Memory' aims to profile people shaped by China's Cultural Revolution
Tania Branigan, once China correspondent for the Guardian, makes the strongest English-language effort yet to reconstruct what it was like to live through, and then with, this part of Chinese history.
(Image credit: W. W. Norton & Company)
New Butterflies Are Named for Sauron, ‘Lord of the Rings’ Villain
The distinctive marks on the newly identified insects resemble the baleful eye of Sauron, the dark lord in J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantasy series.
The Making of a New M.L.K. Biography: A Q&A With the Author, Jonathan Eig
New archival material and a narrowing window in which to speak to people who knew Martin Luther King, Jr. fueled the work, said the author.
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