Maine writer Chris Holm will be at Longfellow Books this week to launch his debut novel “Dead Harvest.”

Our ‘Readers Pick’ winners resisted the temptations of the usually irresistible George Clooney.

Art “Charles Gatewood’s Wall Street,” rare vintage and contemporary photographs, River Tree Arts, Kennebunk. 967-9120. Through March 16. “In a State of Becoming: Inuit Art from the Collection of Rabbi Harry Sky,” Bowdoin College (Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum), Brunswick. bowdoin.edu/arctic-musem. Through April 14. “Painters, Players and Poets,” “Branching Out: Water” and “Gardiner Area Artists,” Waterfall Arts, […]

The last time Sarah Lord hopped on the boards at Portland Stage, in 1998, she was a hot-shot young local amateur working with a bunch of New York professionals. By all accounts, the teenage Lord stole the show. “The Loman Family Picnic” was a huge hit, and she was singled out for her outstanding work. […]

“Red Ruby Heart in a Cold Blue Sea” is a finely nuanced coming-of-age story. It tells of Florine Gilham’s journey through adolescence living on The Point, a close-knit collection of houses and families on a stretch of rural Maine coast. Adolescence is painful enough, but Florine’s is especially so in that she must endure the […]

Eight stories, all influenced by the Holocaust, deliver both comedy and tragedy in “What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank.”