Book Review

Reporting from the Book Review desk in Boston, for a Commonwealth whose literary map runs from Concord to the Berkshires.

Emerson, Thoreau and the Alcotts wrote in Concord, Emily Dickinson in Amherst, and Herman Melville finished Moby-Dick at Arrowhead in Pittsfield. The desk reviews Massachusetts authors past and present, the Mass Book Awards and the histories of the Commonwealth's mill cities and coast, and reads national books with the whole state, not only Boston, in mind.