“A Voice From Old New York: A Memoir of My Youth” by Louis Auchincloss. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 224 pages. $25. A prolific chronicler of New York’s high society in more than 60 novels, short story collections and nonfiction works, Louis Auchincloss concluded his career with a slim memoir. “A Voice From Old New York” addresses […]

Jenny Holzer covers the world with poetry. Holzer, a conceptual artist from New York, projects words and ideas on the sides of rugged mountains, across sprawling deserts and on top of rippling bodies of water. On Tuesday, Holzer will be in Portland for a site-specific projection of the words of Nobel Prize-winning poet Wislawa Szymborska […]

Mainer Silvio Calabi explores the life of Ernest Hemingway through the prism of his passion for hunting and firearms.

Eleven years after Dennis Lehane’s last Kenzie-Gennaro book, Amanda McCready is missing again.

PORTLAND – Actor, director and filmmaker Michael Maglaras will perform John Greenleaf Whittier’s masterful poem “Snow-Bound” at 3 p.m. Dec. 12 at the St. Lawrence Arts Center, 76 Congress St. It will be an hour-long reading, with Charles Ives’s “Concord Sonata” as a musical backdrop. Donna McNeil, director of the Maine Arts Commission, will introduce […]

Outstanding local health pros are feted at the Hanley Center Honors reception.

KENNEBUNK Boston String Quartet offers holiday program on Dec. 18 The Boston String Quartet will perform a new holiday program, “Christmas in Buenos Aires,” at 7 p.m. Dec. 18 at St. David’s Episcopal Church on Route 1. The Boston String Quartet, known for its unique sound and contemporary playing techniques, has collaborated with famous performers […]

Giovanni Morelli might be the most important art historian you’ve never heard of. That’s not surprising given that art historians rarely affect our daily lives. If, however, you believe that you have a subconscious or that dream imagery is meaningfully tied to the residue of our real lives, then your understanding of the human mind […]