BOOKS

Gov. Maura Healey signed the “Freedom to Read” law on Monday in an attempt to keep book bans out of Massachusetts schools and librarians. The new law aims to strengthen protections for public school teachers and librarians.

We take a visit to Just Roots farm in Greenfield, speak with High Five Books owner Lexi Wright, and explore pluralization with interim Word Nerd Peter Sokolowski.

We speak to author Jeff Chang about his biography of Bruce Lee, "Water, Mirror, Echo," and chat with Mr. Universe on federal funding to science.

We talk to author Josh Weil about his new book, "What Came West," talk with actress and star of "Free Willy" Jayne Atkinson before her talk back at The Triplex, and check in with Mr. Universe.

Author Eric Jay Dolin discusses a 19th-century New Bedford whaling voyage that ended in a shipwreck and a clash of cultures in Palau.

The Ghanaian-American novelist discusses using Boston to frame her characters' search for authenticity and a quiet reprieve from elite spaces.

The former Longmeadow resident shares how the 2018 Hawaii alert inspired his western Mass.-set debut novel, tracing the local fallout, satire, and trauma of a tech error.

Vermont author Tim Weed grounds a fantastical story with smuggled Mesoamerican treasure and a mysterious missing father in the familiar hills of his home state in his new novel, "The Gatepost."

We find out what Double Edge Theatre has in store for their annual summer spectacle, speak with Mount Holyoke professor Patricia Dawson about her great aunt's book, "A History of the Cherokee Nation," and visit The Triplex Cinema for their "FREE AIR CONDITIONING" series.

We visit Windrow Farm in Conway, interview Samuel Galen Ng about his research on lynching in America with book "Assemblies of Sorrow," and explore the cosmos with Mr. Universe.