Books
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PublishedApril 27, 2014
Book Review: ‘Josephine Baker’ explores dancer’s activism, exploits and ‘Tribe’
The African-American woman went from the Paris stage to her vision of multiracial utopia.
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PublishedApril 27, 2014
Book Review: ‘American Crucifixion’ explores murder of Mormon founder Joseph Smith
It’s a well-told story of religious experimentation, public intolerance and the making of a martyr.
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PublishedMarch 30, 2014
Take Heart: A Conversation in Poetry
Haines Tate of Waterville died of breast cancer in 2012, two years after the recurrence of her illness. In her collection “Strata” she explores, among other themes, the difficulties faced by cancer victims. This week’s brave poem is from that book.
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PublishedNovember 17, 2013
Signings, Etc.
Jason C. Anthony’s ‘Hoosh’
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PublishedSeptember 20, 2013
USM professor writes book on ‘Breaking Bad’
American culture, politics and values are interpreted in critical essays on aspects of the hit television drama.
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PublishedSeptember 15, 2013
Book Review: A sunny summer turns dark in Ogunquit
Unexpected happenings in “The Summer Everything Changed,” the new novel by Holly Chamberlin, unfold like the escape of evil from Pandora’s box. That’s the good part of the book. What’s less appealing is the pace of this long, 400-page mystery. Brevity would have improved it. Nevertheless, “The Summer Everything Changed” is a chilling and realistic […]
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PublishedSeptember 15, 2013
Author Q&A: C’est Jack
Joyce Johnson's biography of Jack Kerouac delves into the impact the Beat writer's Franco-American identity had on his life and work.
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PublishedSeptember 15, 2013
Book Review: Ennui as premise rubs off on reader
J.M. Coetzee's latest novel ultimately falls prey to the emptiness it describes.
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PublishedAugust 11, 2013
Best-Sellers
FICTION HARDCOVER 1. “The Cuckoos Calling,” by Robert Galbraith (Mulholland) 2. “Good Night Maine,” by Adam Gamble (Our World of Books) 3. “Silver Star,” by Jeannette Walls (Scribner) 4. “The Fault in Our Stars,” by John Green (Dutton) 5. “The Light in the Ruins,” by Chris Bohjalian (Doubleday) 6. “Diary of a Wimpy Kid,” by […]
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PublishedAugust 11, 2013
Book review: Cleverness lifts crime novel out of its gore
“Sunrise,” by Portland author Al Lamanda, is a high-action crime novel that delivers the unbeatable combination of realism wrapped into a very imaginative plot. And for a thriller knee-deep in blood and gore, it’s a remarkably funny book. In one passage early in the novel, for instance, private investigator John Bekker and partner Walt meet […]
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