The Mitchell Institute bids farewell to former executive director Colleen Quint and welcomes a new leader in Meg Baxter.
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Book Review: Exploring what it is about friends
As I read Lauren Fox’s new novel, I dog-eared the pages with witty lines, or impressively bitter ones, or ones that made me laugh. Please forgive me, Alfred A. Knopf, for what I’ve done to your book. I hadn’t intended to make origami out of it. Willa, her narrator, describes her parents’ marriage as “another […]
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Audience Calendar
Art Michael Bell-Smith, lo-fi environments exhibit, Maine College of Art (Institute of Contemporary Art), Portland. 699-5029. Through March 14. Artist lecture, 6 p.m. Saturday Juried student exhibition, University of Southern Maine (Woodbury Campus Center), Portland. usm.maine.edu/gallery. Ends today. Tanja Alexia Hollander: “Are You Really My Friend?”, Hollander’s photographs of her Facebook friends, Portland Museum of […]
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Book Review: Novel tells a chilling story set in Alaska
A childless middle-aged couple builds a snowgirl, and the mystery begins.
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Classical Beat: There’s romance music, and then there’s Romance — try both
Two classical celebrations of Valentine’s Day are coming up soon. At 3 p.m. today, pianist Laura Kargul and violinist Ronald Lantz will present a program of French romantic music at Corthell Hall on the Gorham campus of the University of Southern Maine. On Tuesday, the Portland Symphony Orchestra’s regular concert will also be devoted to […]
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Book Review: High finance leads to high drama in ‘The Fear Index’
With fine pacing and detail — and yes, a few flaws — Robert Harris tells a thrilling tale.
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Bob Keyes: Time to honor best of Maine literature
The submission deadline for the 2012 Maine Literary Awards is fast approaching.
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Book Review: Travel, history and poetry in New England
Reviewing three volumes on subjects as diverse as travel, history and the life of a poet may seem absurd, but there’s a method to the madness.
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Art Review: ‘Painting of Landscapes and Trucks’ worth the ride
When I walked into the “Paintings of Landscapes and Trucks,” I was immediately struck by the painting “Woodstock Ford”.
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Take Heart: A Conversation in Poetry
Veteran author Elizabeth Garber is a former poet laureate of Belfast, who writes nonfiction as well as poetry. In this poem for Valentine’s week, she celebrates one of life’s great feasts. Feasting By Elizabeth W. Garber I am so amazed to find myself kissing you with such abandon, filling myself with our kisses astounding […]