Kate Tuttle

5 days ago | bostonglobe.com | Kate Tuttle

Among the most famous images from the Nazi era is a 1933 photograph that depicts a giant pile of burning books, the back of an officer visible as several volumes fly through the air, bound for the conflagration. “We’ve all seen it,” says Brandy Schillace. But what a lot of us didn’t know on first viewing was that the books being burned belonged to the Institute for Sexual Science run by Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, a medical doctor and staunch advocate for the freedom and equality of LGBTQ people.

1 week ago | bostonglobe.com | Kate Tuttle

In his latest book, cartoonist Harry Bliss confronts the most serious topics — a chaotic and at times abusive childhood, the death of a beloved dog, his own aging — in words and images that brim with joy. The result, “You Can Never Die” (Celadon), contains passages that will provoke tears, to be sure, but also laughter — a lot of it. The author acknowledges that he’s a walking contradiction. “I feel older than I am in certain ways, but I also feel like I’m very immature,” says Bliss.

2 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Kate Tuttle

In Claire Hoffman’s first book, “Greetings From Utopia Park,” she describes growing up as a follower of Transcendental Meditation. Her second book, “Sister, Sinner” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) is a biography of Aimee Semple McPherson, the evangelist whose preaching helped turn Pentecostalism from a tiny, fringe movement to the fastest-growing Christian sect in the world. “I didn’t grow up Christian,” says Hoffman.

3 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Kate Tuttle

With the death of Pope Francis I, the Catholic Church will once again undertake its age-old process of selecting the next pontiff. As the 2024 movie “Conclave‚” based on the 2016 novel of the same name by British author Robert Harris, depicted, the College of Cardinals will assemble for their conclave in Rome in the next two or three weeks to vote in secret, as many times as necessary, until the next pope is elected.

3 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Kate Tuttle

When Sophie moves from Vermont to Jamaica Plain, she’s relieved that she’s no longer the only kid of color in her classroom, but everything else is a challenge for the 11-year-old newcomer. Things begin to turn around when Sophie meets a cool teenaged neighbor with an adorable pug, and the pair collaborate with Sophie’s godmother, a Boston Globe journalist, to produce the Barking Puppy, a newspaper by dogs, for dogs.