Amazon.com is apologizing for a “technical error” over the shipping of “The Testaments,” the year’s most anticipated novel.

Several excellent new nonfiction works by Mainers, coming this fall, cover topics as wide-ranging as wool, ghosts and Muslim refugees.

Using items from the Maine State Museum, ‘A Story of Maine in 112 Objects’ reflects the state’s cultural ups and downs with wit and imagination.

John Clubbe has written a thoughtful cultural history that takes into account the times in which the composer lived and worked.

The Illustration Institute has brought more than 50 illustrators from around the world to its residency program, made possible by donated property, over the past three years.