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Tanzanian writer awarded Nobel Prize for Literature

by DAVID KEYTON, JILL LAWLESS and CARA ANNA Associated Press October 7, 2021October 7, 2021

Abdulrazak Gurnah was born in Zanzibar in 1948 and recently retired as a professor at the University of Kent in England.

The book’s no-nonsense, sometimes airy prose to some extent underemphasizes the sordid violence it details.

A fast-paced frontier whodunit and a first novel that shows polish and promise for the author

New novel ‘The Last Resort’ explores themes of environmental and social justice

Follow-up to 2019 anthology features new fiction from Maine writers

by Bill Bushnell September 10, 2021September 9, 2021

A new novel from Jim Nichols, and a photographic and narrative history of quilting in Maine

This survey of backwoods Maine will illuminate its times and places for historians

by Bill Bushnell August 27, 2021August 26, 2021

Books for children tell the true tale of a beloved shelter dog, and a great story about Percival Baxter

by Dana Wilde August 20, 2021August 19, 2021

A memoir of the anti-war protest years

The cake appears in her memoir, and at many a family occasion. But don’t ask Wood to bake it.