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 →
Having illustrated more than 60 picture books—from “The Great Reindeer Rebellion” and “What Does Cow Say?” to “Road Work Ahead” and “Bunny and Bird Are Best Friends”—Jannie Ho describes her…Continue Reading →
“We will not allow any president to achieve by intimidation what our Constitution precludes him or her from achieving in court,” Macmillan Publishers CEO John Sargent wrote this week in…Continue Reading →
The Boston Public Library has announced the books most borrowed from the city library system in 2017: Adult Books 10. “All The Light We Cannot See” by Anthony Doerr 9.…Continue Reading →
“I wanted my sculptures to be outdoors in parks, where people of all ages could touch and enjoy them,” writes Nancy Schön, the West Newton artist best known for her…Continue Reading →
Here’s how Greg Cook carved and printed a linocut rendition of the cover of his long comic book “Friends Is Friends,” August 2016. Above: Finished prints hung up to dry.Continue Reading →
“It’s about resistance to throwing things out,” poet Ammiel Alcalay said during the shindig Saturday night to celebrate the opening of the Maud/Olson Library in Gloucester. The library is a…Continue Reading →