Chris Thompson’s new book ponders the potential ramifications of a meeting between art innovator Joseph Beuys and the Dalai Lama.

NEW YORK – It’s a mild late-winter morning as Nancy Margolis steps from the cab on a busy street in Chelsea. She pays her fare and walks up a short flight of stairs to begin another day doing what she loves most. It’s been almost 20 years since Margolis traded her art gallery space on […]

CAITLIN SHETTERLY Portland author Caitlin Shetterly will discuss her memoir “Made for You and Me: Going West, Going Broke, Finding Home” (Hyperion) Wednesday as part of the Portland Public Library’s Brown Bag Lecture series. Shetterly’s book is about how she and her husband moved to California in 2008 as newlyweds to seek economic opportunities, only […]

“The Mosts,” an edgy, readable story, gives fresh power to the insight that being young may pass but high school goes on forever. Often, self-image and self-esteem are shaped there, molded by teenage boys focused on sports and girls who accept and reject classmates as ruthlessly as they shop for clothes. Maine novelist Melissa Senate, […]

PORTLAND — Robert Nason always starts his story at the beginning. “I was born in 1923 to a middle-class family in a middle-class neighborhood,” says the grizzled old man. “The first world war had really just ended, and by the time I was in high school, the Depression was just letting up. But by then, […]

PORTLAND – Mad Horse Theatre Company continues its run of Sam Shepard’s play “The Late Henry Moss” through March 27. Performances are at Lucid Stage, 29 Baxter Blvd., Portland. “The Late Henry Moss” is the latest installment of Shepard’s cycle of family plays. Two brothers meet up after the death of their estranged alcoholic father. […]

… and you, and what makes us uniquely ourselves. Hannah Holmes’ latest book is a fresh, laugh-out-loud look at personality traits.

Maine Restaurant Week kicks off with a fabulous dessert and drinks competition.