2025 – Page 675 – The Portland Press Herald

Arts & Entertainment, Books, Life & Culture

Bestsellers: ‘How to Read a Book’ and ‘Abundance’ top local lists

August 14, 2025August 14, 2025

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

Arts & Entertainment, Life & Culture

Summer in Maine is green. So are these 4 works of art.

by Megan Gray August 14, 2025August 13, 2025

The color has many connotations, from growing things to climate change.

Op-eds, Opinion

There’s still time to end the redistricting madness | Douglas Rooks

by Douglas Rooks August 14, 2025August 14, 2025

Maine can serve as a national model for reform with its constitutional provisions requiring two-thirds approval.

Arts & Entertainment, Books, Life & Culture, Review

New book details how Maine’s North Woods was protected

by John Alden August 14, 2025August 14, 2025

Karin Tilberg’s ‘Loving the North Woods’ gives a detailed history of the region’s recent conservation, but misses a few key points.

Arts & Entertainment, Life & Culture

Take a look at historical photos of Maine students heading back to school

by Aimsel Ponti August 14, 2025August 15, 2025

Time for students to get their supplies organized and their first day outfits ready.

Letters

We cannot call it genocide in Gaza | Letter

August 14, 2025August 20, 2025

The use of the word “genocide” to describe the situation in Gaza is not remotely accurate and should not require a rebuttal, but here is one anyway. At no time before or during WWII were the Jews an existential threat to Germany. They had been living peaceably with no weapons of war at their disposal. […]