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On August 1st a group of dedicated Melvilleans gathered at the author’s Arrowhead home in the morning to commemorate his 191st birthday by hiking to Monument Mountain. This trip is meant to reenact the hike Melville took on August 5, 1850, which led to his meeting Nathaniel Hawthorne, whose short story collection Mosses from an…
Read MoreMargaret Atwood’s novel turns out to have been far more clairvoyant than even she believed it would be.
Read MoreBook Appreciation: Celebrating Kate Atkinson’s “Life After Life” –The Best Novel of the 21st Century
In “Life After Life,” novelist Kate Atkinson has shown how boundless the imagination can be.
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Alan Paul’s meticulous, in-depth research lays out many of the pieces needed to help the reader think more deeply about this era.
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Paul Muldoon is anxious to file dispatches from the front lines of Our Lives Now. That is one of the characteristics that separates him from most other poets writing today.
Read More“It was an unusual time in music when the-powers-that-be were very hands-off. They left the art to the artists.”
Read MoreHe knew what he wanted to do, he did it, and he took millions along for the ride.
Read MoreAs the individual who quite possibly had the best seats in the house for the monumental legal battle that unfolded over the course of a few weeks in the summer of 1971, James Goodale provers invaluable morsels of insight and information.
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Visual Arts Commentary: Expanding Abstraction — What’s So Narrow About That?
Expanding Abstraction is a success because it does what it set out to do: to highlight the visions of New England’s female abstract painters.
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