Dana Wilde wraps up his column with Jim Bishop’s quintessentially skillful, insightful Maine postwar poetry.
Books
Books news and reviews from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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A Bowdoin professor collects his thoughts on the Black American experience
Anthony Walton’s ‘The End of Respectability’ features a dozen essays, written over time, with his observations on race in this country.
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BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘The Busy Body’ and ‘Patchwork Quilt Murder’
A timely, classic Agatha Christie-style mystery, and the 30th book in the Lucy Stone Mystery series.
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BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘Tell Me Everything’ and ‘The Maine Standard’
A new novel from Elizabeth Strout featuring three popular characters, and a collection of poems, photographs and stories contributed by Mainers.
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OFF RADAR: ‘The Cliffs’
This book starts out with a gothic feel, then steadily shifts its footing to a fairly typical contemporary depiction of the main character’s chaotic emotional life.
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BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘The Space Between You and Me’ and ‘Oxbow Island Gang: Summer Bats’
A debut young-adult romance novel by Julie True Kingsley, and the last book in the ‘Oxbow Island Gang’ series.
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BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘Real Spies Don’t Use Rowboats’ and ‘Hard Line’
The first volume in the “The Boy Spies of Maine” series by Jeffrey Hope, and the last book in the popular Jack McMorrow mystery series by Gerry Boyle.
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Han Kang is first South Korean to win the Nobel Prize for literature
Kang, a poet and novelist, was awarded for books, including ‘The Vegetarian’ and ‘Human Acts,’ that explore the pain of being human and the scars of Korea’s turbulent history.
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OFF RADAR: ‘Ukrainian Poetry of War and Hope’
When Steve Luttrell encountered some Ukrainian poets and artists — people trying to make sense out of bewildering chaos — he tried to think of how to help.
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BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘Flood Tide’ and ‘Stephen King’s Maine’
The second book in Albert Waitt’s LT Nichols mystery series, and a journey across Maine looking for towns, businesses, professions and locations featured in Stephen King’s books.