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 →
Over the past year, the Gloucester poet Gerrit Lansing had been thinking a lot about death, poet Ruth Lepson recalled at the annual Boston Poetry Marathon on Sunday afternoon. “Do…Continue Reading →
Just north of Harvard Yard in Cambridge sits the Harvard Science Building. And just to its left, on its west side facing toward Cambridge Common, is the stump of a…Continue Reading →
Boston Compass celebrated eight years of publishing and the arrival of its hundredth issue with the “Compass Centennial” party featuring DJs, snacks, beer and a “fashion photo booth” at the…Continue Reading →
I wrote about the Boston Compass reaching a milestone in the latest Dig Boston: “Directing you to underground shows and awesome happenings! in Boston,” Samuel Potrykus scrawled across the top of the…Continue Reading →