A new independent bookstore called Hummingbird Books opened April 30 on Independent Bookstore Day at The Street Chestnut Hill. The bookstore is catered to families and features a large installation, ...

Compared to other states, Massachusetts is not a hot spot for book bans, but that hasn’t stopped Hummingbird Books from getting involved in the effort against literary censorship. For this year’s ...

This cover image released by Atria shows "The Hummingbirds' Gift: Wonder, Beauty, and Renewal on Wings," by Sy Montgomery. (Atria via AP) “The Hummingbirds’ Gift,” by Sy Montgomery (Atria Books) As ...

When I realized “Hummingbird Season,” a debut novel by Stephanie Lucianovic, is a story set in the time of COVID-19, I set the book aside for minute. I was not excited to relive those memories. But it ...

Every month, our series Shelf Life will profile a business in Greater Boston that’s part of the region’s thriving independent bookstore community. This month we are featuring Hummingbird Booksin ...

Sandro Veronesi won Italy’s major book award, the Strega Prize, in 2006 for his powerful novel “Quiet Chaos,” about the existential grappling of a newly widowed father, and he won again in 2020 for ...