2025 – Page 612 – The Portland Press Herald

Arts & Entertainment, Books, Life & Culture

Bestsellers: “How to Read a Book” and ‘Rope’ top local bestseller lists

August 28, 2025August 25, 2025

Here are the week’s top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Longfellow Books in Portland.

Letters

Poor planning made a bad situation worse | Letter

August 28, 2025August 27, 2025

The Aug. 15 shooting in Windham could have been handled better on multiple fronts.

Arts & Entertainment, Books, Do This, Life & Culture

Award-winning journalist crafts a propulsive climate change thriller in ‘We Can’t Save You’

by Wayne Catan August 28, 2025August 27, 2025

Native Americans occupy a place of honor in Thomas E. Ricks’ second of a series set in Maine starring a grief-stricken FBI agent.

Arts & Entertainment, Books, Life & Culture

He thought he found life on Mars — and sparked an alien craze

by Dennis Drabelle Special to The Washington Post August 28, 2025August 27, 2025

‘The Martians’ by David Baron explores how 19th-century businessman and amateur astronomer Percival Lowell fueled speculation that there were canals on Mars.

Letters

Stop using people as pawns in voter ID debate | Letter

August 28, 2025

I am a person living with a handicapping condition. I’ve voted in every election since I became eligible, and like many, I use absentee ballots to do so. What I do not appreciate is how opponents of voter ID laws use people like me as examples to argue against these measures. It’s offensive to suggest […]

Letters

Vote ‘Yes’ on Question 2 to help save lives | Letter

August 28, 2025

My father lived in Maine his whole life. He loved to hunt and fish, and he owned several firearms. Being a responsible individual, he knew how to maintain and keep them safe from others. Ironically, our family lived near Lewiston, where the 2023 mass shooting occurred. My dad would have been horrified — not only […]

Op-eds, Opinion

Our neighbors to the south need to look in the mirror | Opinion

by Rhiannon Hamdi August 28, 2025

In response to Maine Sen. Joe Martin’s recent ‘invitation,’ this proud Canadian would like to shine a light on how America currently appears to the rest of the world.