Two decades ago, author Junot Diaz was asked by his two goddaughters, Dominican girls living in the Bronx, to write a book about little girls like them. “The only problem…Continue Reading →
At the start of last year, Minneapolis novelist Kelly Barnhill won the Newbery Medal, the highest honor in young adult literature, for her fourth novel, “The Girl Who Drank the…Continue Reading →
Will my umbrella survive? Will I survive? How many trash cans will I see tumble by my window?Continue Reading →
Last Saturday, Feb. 24, hundreds of people gathered at Gloucester’s Hammond Castle for a memorial to eminent Gloucester poet Gerrit Lansing, who died on Feb. 11, a couple weeks shy…Continue Reading →
The titles of the paintings in Providence artist Allison Cole’s exhibition “Lost Together” in the Reading Room at AS220’s Project Space gallery in Providence through Feb. 24 begin to tell…Continue Reading →
“I was able to do something maybe wilder than I would have on my own,” the Boston artist Barbara Swan would say about her illustrations for Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston poet…Continue Reading →
The debut of director Ryan Coogler’s “Black Panther” movie last weekend and its vision of the utopian African nation of Wakanda has sparked black joy around the world. “When I…Continue Reading →
“My name is Greg Gibson and I’m speaking with the man who killed my son,” Gibson (above right) says in a striking StoryCorps radio interview first broadcast last December. It…Continue Reading →
I was saddened to learn yesterday that my friend, the eminent Gloucester poet Gerrit Lansing, has entered care for the end of his long and amazing life. (Update Jan. 12:…Continue Reading →
“Is our democracy in danger?” Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt write at the beginning of their new book “How Democracies Die” (Crown). “It’s a question we never thought we’d be…Continue Reading →