What the first president’s own documents reveal about his life and work as a farmer.
Books
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Best-Sellers: ‘Klara and the Sun,’ ‘Call Us What We Carry’
The current best-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Longfellow Books in Portland.
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Book review: Kat Rosenfield’s thriller is blistering, its takedown of snobbery bravura
In “No One Will Miss Her,” a Maine lake house murder exposes the value placed on some lives over others.
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Bedside table: A book that ponders, what if?
“I am head of the new Read Between the Spines Book Club hosted at the Bibliophile Bookshop & Coffeehouse in Raymond. We currently have 45 ladies and one man in our book club. Bibliophile is also a new locally owned bookshop that our entire area has fallen in love with. “Anyway, Read Between the Spines […]
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Joan Didion, peerless prose stylist, dies at 87
Joan Didion, the revered author and essayist whose provocative social commentary and detached, methodical literary voice made her a uniquely clear-eyed critic of a uniquely turbulent time, has died.
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Maine writer donates $15,000 to reading program that welcomes immigrants
National Book Award-winning author Phillip Hoose gives the money to I’m Your Neighbor Books, a Portland-based nonprofit.
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Author Eve Babitz, who captured and embodied LA culture, dies at 78
Her books wove back and forth between fiction and nonfiction, but all of it was rooted in her own experiences.
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bell hooks, trailblazing Black feminist and social critic, dies at 69
Trailblazing Black feminist bell hooks, whose graceful, probing and wide-ranging books sought to empower people of all races, classes and genders, anticipating and helping shape ongoing debates about justice and discrimination in the United States, died Wednesday at her home in Berea, Kentucky. She was 69. The cause was end-stage renal failure, said her sister […]
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The danger of American nostalgia for World War II
Romanticizing that war has led us to seek another just as “good,” Elizabeth Samet writes.
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Best-Sellers: ‘Cloud Cuckoo Land,’ ‘Got Warrants’
The current best-selling books at Nonesuch Books & More in South Portland.
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