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10 New Books We Recommend This Week
April 15, 2021
Some readers are waiting for the next installment in Robert Caro’s multivolume Lyndon Johnson biography as avidly as George R. R. Martin fans eager for “The Winds of Winter” to arrive at last. (Some, I suppose, are at the edge of their seats waiting for both.) If you are among them, why not bide your time with Julia Sweig’s substantial new biography of Johnson’s wife, “Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight”? Our reviewer, Mimi Swartz, calls it “a book in the Caro mold,” telling the story of America through its subject. That’s one of a passel of new biographies we recommend this week, including Blake Bailey’s long-awaited life of Philip Roth, Edward White’s tessellated study of Alfred Hitchcock and Dorothy Wickenden’s group biography of Frances Seward, Martha Coffin Wright and Harriet Tubman.
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A book about mushrooms, new poetry pondering what we humans need, and a publishing experiment that blends book-buying and philanthropy
By Nina MacLaughlin Globe Correspondent,Updated March 4, 2021, 1:46 p.m.
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Bringing new meaning to digging mushrooms
Doug Bierendâs lively, engaging, and enlightening new book, âIn Search of Mycotopia: Citizen Science, Fungi Fanatics, and the Untapped Potential of Mushroomsâ (Chelsea Green) initiates readers into the rich world of the mushroom and its multiple powerful uses: as food, medicine, assistors in environmental remediation, a model to how to exist in a more symbiotic and reciprocal way. He establishes what fungi are, in nature and culture, then guides us in to the âmycelium undergroundâ of enthusiasts, farmers, and foragers looking to broaden mushroomsâ uses and appeal. And all the while the book is undergirded by the question of how looking at mushrooms â or ot