Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review. In “Open Socrates,” the scholar Agnes Callard argues that the ancient Greek ...
In the shadows of these histories, however, lie great sports stories of everyday Black Bostonians who forged their own sporting traditions under prejudiced conditions. “ : A Contested Sports History , ...
January in New England is a great time to cozy up with a good book. Need ideas? Tonight, we revisit the Montague Book Mill, home to 40,000 books in a historic mill, and the Boston Athenaeum, a private ...