Kate Tuttle

1 month ago | bostonglobe.com | Kate Tuttle

Just after Paul Elie graduated from high school in 1983, he moved to New York to attend Fordham, followed soon by graduate school at Columbia. In the end he spent the majority of the 80s living in the city, a time and place he vividly recalls in his new book, “The Last Supper: Art, Faith, Sex, and Controversy in the 1980s” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). “I recognized how much I was formed by that moment.

1 month ago | bostonglobe.com | Kate Tuttle

There’s a painting of a house on the cover of “Maine Characters” (Dutton), Hannah Orenstein’s new novel; it’s based on a photograph of the author’s lake house. “It’s my favorite place in the world and I wanted to bring readers there with me,” says Orenstein. “Maine is such a special, beautiful place.

1 month 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 month 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 months 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.