This week the American Library Association announced that Boston artist Ekua Holmes had again won its Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award, honoring African American authors and illustrators of outstanding books…Continue Reading →
In 1970, “Ed Emberley’s Drawing Book of Animals” was published, the first in a long line of how-to draw books by the Ipswich author that have gone on to inspire…Continue Reading →
At the end of each year, the Boston Public Library releases its list of the year’s most borrowed books, offering a window into the year’s favorite reads. Most borrowed adult…Continue Reading →
“Attention Massachusetts/I have ascended above you,” Franklin Einspruch writes across a watery painting of clouds that opens his book “Cloud on a Mountain: Comics Poems from Greylock.” Comics poetry is…Continue Reading →
The American Revolution is in its fifth year in Nathaniel Philbrick’s spirited new history, “In the Hurricane’s Eye: The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown” (Viking), his…Continue Reading →
In the 1950s, when Ashley Bryan first came by boat to summer on Maine’s Great Cranberry Island, he recalled, “I had my boxes and things, someone reached for it and…Continue Reading →
Here’s our guide to what to see at this weekend’s Boston Book Festival. The annual event offers more than 125 talks and presentations at three locations—the main festival in Boston’s…Continue Reading →
In a joint letter, more than 80 Maine affiliated writers—including Pulitzer Prize-winners Richard Russo and Michael Chabon, Ann Beattie, Jonathan Lethem and John Hodgman—are calling on Sen. Susan Collins, a…Continue Reading →
There are moments of delight and happiness in the tales of Winnie-the-Pooh—like the very first one, the comedy of the stuffed bear pretending (badly) to be a rain cloud so…Continue Reading →
Sorry to hear about the passing of Sam Cornish, who was Boston’s Poet Laureate from 2008 to 2015. He died on Aug. 20 at age 82. “As a black writer…Continue Reading →