The Bookworm Sez

‘A Soldier’s Wife: My Mother, the Marvelous Mrs. Marilyn A. Underwood’ by Blair Underwood with Ylonda Gault

c.2026, Amistad, $28, 208 pages I’m telling Mom! When you were small, those words were often enough to send a…

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Book: ‘Devout: Losing My Faith to Find Myself’ by David Archuleta

c.2026, Gallery Books, $29, 290 pages So just make up your mind already. The decision is very much in your…

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‘Kids, Wait Till You Hear This! My Memoir’ by Liza Minnelli, as told to Michael Feinstein

c.2026, Grand Central, $36, 421 pages Twenty feet in front of you, and you can’t see a thing. Even the…

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‘Are You There Spirit? It’s Me, Travis: Life Lessons from the Other Side’ by Travis Holp

c.2025, Spiegel and Grau, $28, 240 pages Your dad sent you a penny the other day, minted in his birth…

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‘Night People: How to Be a DJ in ’90s New York City’ by Mark Ronson

c.2025, Grand Central, $29, 256 pages You just can’t hold still. The music starts, and your hips shake, your shoulders…

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‘Queer Enlightenments: A Hidden History of Lovers, Lawbreakers, and Homemakers’ by Anthony Delaney

c.2025, Atlantic Monthly Press, $30, 352 pages It had to start somewhere. The discrimination, the persecution, the inequality, it had…

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Bookworm Sez’ Holiday Gift Guide

Santa will be very relieved. You’ve taken most of the burden off him by making a list and checking it…

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Book: ‘The Elements’ by John Boyne

c.2025, Henry Holt, $29.99, 496 pages You weren’t proud of it. Something you did in your past, yesterday, five years…

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Book: ‘Mounted: On Horses, Blackness, and Liberation’ by Bitter Kalli

c.2025, Amistad $22, 192 pages One thousand, two hundred pounds and four legs. Put that between your knees and you’ll…

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Books for Pride month

You’re going to be on your feet a lot this month. Marching in parades, dancing in the streets, standing up…

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