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Book review: ‘The Passion of Perfection: Gertrude Hitz Burton’s Modern Victorian Life’ by June Vail
Constrained by stodgy Victorian mores, Hitz Burton resolutely followed her moral compass to her own true north.
Book review: Eric Idle on Monty Python, the brighter side
A founding member of the ‘Flying Circus’ dishes on his long, funny life.
Book review: ‘The Forgotten’ eyes evolution of white Trump voters
Ben Bradlee Jr. examines a key swing state – Pennsylvania – that Trump the candidate surprisingly won in 2016.
Book review: Spilt blood (in a cozy way) on a fictional Maine island
The first book in a new Maine-set mystery series features guns, blood and recipes.
Book review: “Dopesick” tells heartbreaking stories of young lives lost and families crushed in the opioid epidemic
From coast to coast and border to border, the scourge is leaving an ever-widening trail of death and destruction, as Beth Macy’s new chronicle painfully illustrates.
If Dali’s paintings were books, they might look like this
In “Notes from the Fog,” Ben Marcus traffics in the surreal, the dystopian and the downright strange.
Barnes & Noble reviews offers to buy company
One of the interested parties is its founder and chairman, Leonard Riggio.
Friends of a Maine writer posthumously publish her novel about the afterlife
Elisabeth Wilkins Lombardo’s friends edit the manuscript and work with a publisher to get ‘The Afterlife of Kenzaburo Tsuruda’ to print.
‘Hill Street Blues’ writer’s new novel is based on a Maine factory town, like the ones he’s come to know
Emmy winner Jeffrey Lewis, who splits his time between Castine and Los Angeles, will give talk about his book, ‘Bealport,’ on Tuesday in Portland.