“Sequestered Storytime with Jef Czekaj”—Somerville children’s book author and artist Jef Czekaj’s DIY television show for kids—represents one of the more delightful ways folks are navigating the daunting seriousness of…Continue Reading →
A who-done-it sits at the center of K. B. Wagers’s sci-fi adventure novel “A Pale Light in the Black” (Harper Voyager). A new lieutenant joins the crew of an elite…Continue Reading →
Tomie dePaola—the New Hampshire artist and children’s book creator who won the Caldecott Honor for his 1975 book “Strega Nona” about a kindly witch—died today at age 85. The Associated…Continue Reading →
As best-selling historian Erik Larsons’ new World War II book “The Splendid and the Vile” (Crown Publishing) opens, the military forces of Nazi Germany are rolling over France and the…Continue Reading →
A fugue of memories and dreams flow over us in Nona Fernández’s lyrical novella “Space Invaders” (Graywolf Press)—arriving in a crisp, lucid translation by my friend Natasha Wimmer that was…Continue Reading →
Karen Krolak, artistic director of Monkeyhouse dance company, performs at the kickoff celebration for the 2020 “Malden Reads,” one-city, one-book reading program, at the Malden Senior Community Center on Saturday,…Continue Reading →
![The Rendille of northern Kenya’s Kaisut Desert: "Throughout the [Herr Heroon, or bull] ceremony, warriors gather in small groups to perform leaping dances, expressing their unity as a generation. When two warriors leap together the dance is called woyee," Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher write in "African Twilight: The Vanishing Rituals and Ceremonies of the African Continent," 2018. (Rizzoli)](https://gregcookland.com/wonderland/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/AfricanTwilight_Book1_p111w530.jpg)
For four decades, American born Carol Beckwith and Australian Angela Fisher have journeyed over 300,000 miles across the African continent, travelling through 44 countries to document more than 150 traditional…Continue Reading →
Kevin Moore had been a star attorney, beloved by his clients as well as fellow lawyers, judges, probation officers and other esteemed members of the legal establishment. But at the…Continue Reading →
Nina MacLaughlin says that she began her brilliant, lyrical, painful new book “Wake, Siren” when she took a stab at rewriting the ancient Greek and Roman tale of Callisto from…Continue Reading →
“There’s absolutely nothing you can’t talk to children about. They want to know the truth,” author and illustrator Maira Kalman says during a tour of her new exhibition “The Pursuit…Continue Reading →