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Off to the Races
The fall ’24 season is in full swing and extraordinary voices this week from Albania, Argentina, and South Africa await you
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Neither Here nor There
This week, we visit a town in rural Maine where nothing much happens; a passionate affair in Norway where too much happens; a future in which...
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Conjunctions
This week’s books, three of which we will celebrate with events at The Center, investigate the myriad ways literature explores connections...
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The Power of Art
This week we have Sarajevo-set fiction about art’s capacity to provide hope amid war; the novelized life of an influential art collector...
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Perfect Match
During this period of heat and humidity, immerse yourself—if not into the cool waters of an ocean, lake, or pool, then into the lives of others
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Time Out
This week you’ll find two books that are timely in their ability to capture the zeitgeist of now. Others use time to tell a story backward and...
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Summer Swelter
These novels crisscross the globe with characters in search of family, food, and answers to the secrets of their pasts. A mother goes missing...
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Spellbound
This week’s selection is meant to keep you on the edge of your beach chair, with books to be gobbled up quickly. An undocumented Ecuadorian...
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Everybody’s Looking for Something
These novels depict the search for answers—how to build a life, how to behave, and how to learn from the past. A Turkish writer gives us a snapshot...
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Missing Chapters
These five novels address disappearances. There is a suburban Long Island kidnapping inspired by true events; a community whose residents are...