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Misunderstandings and Myths about Police Shootings July 26

Skidom- pha Library’s Chats with Champ- ions Commit- tee will present Joe Loughlin, co-author of “Shots Fired: The Misunderstandings, Misconceptions, and Myths about Police Shootings,” as their next guest on Thursday, July 26, at 10 a.m. . . .
Maine Postmark Poetry Contest Entries Due by August 1

The Maine Postmark Poetry Contest, a statewide competi- tion, is happening again this year in conjunction with the 14th annual Belfast Poetry Festival, to be held Saturday, October 13. Maine residents and everyone with access . . .
Book Review: McCain Looks Back On Life As A “Maverick” — For Posterity, Not Votes

In his closing chapter, the man who has spent a lifetime playing the maverick has gone full Bulworth. “I’m freer than colleagues who will face the voters again,” writes Sen. John McCain, 81, in “The Restless Wave,” co-authored with . . .
Book Review: McCain — Trump More Interested In Appearing Tough Than In The Nation's Values

In a new memoir, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., offers a harsh assess- ment of President Donald Trump’s leadership, asserting that his “reality show facsimile of toughness” seems to matter more to him than the nation’s values. . . .
Gary Lawless: So Possibly Life-Changing

Once in a while I read a book that is so powerful, so enlightening, so possibly life-changing that as a bookseller, and as a human being, I want to share news of its arrival as widely as I can. For the last week I have been reading Richard Powers . . .
Book Review: A Rediscovery of Tribalism

The single most important intellec- tual trend of our time is the popular rediscov- ery of human tribalism. We thought we had it licked. For roughly 200,000 years, humans ran around in small, clannish groups, hunting and mating together . . .
Book Review: More Than You Ever Wanted to Know About the War in Afghanistan

In Kabul in December, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani told Vice President Pence that more senior Taliban members had been killed in 2017 than in the previous 15 years combined. “Real progress,” Pence said. The dry language of wire . . .
Book Review: Sometimes You Just Need to Take A Breath

Jeremy Bernard recalls sitting in Los Angeles traffic, a passenger in the car of an increasingly upset driver. His friend was leaning on the horn, blasting out annoyance and impatience in short, angry bursts. “I hate to be preachy, but take a breath” . . .
Book Review: Wolff Delivers a Window on the Trump White House

Dishy political books such as Michael Wolff’s “Fire and Fury” are typically assailed for centering on palace machinations at the expense of policy substance, for privileging White House turf battles over meaningful debates . . .
50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2017

A selection of 2017’s best fiction from the editors of The Washington Post . . .

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