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Arts & Entertainment, Books, Life & Culture

The BFF protagonists find all manner of obstacles as they chase their dreams in this compelling middle-grade read

by Frank O Smith April 29, 2018April 27, 2018

Elizabeth Atkinson’s ‘The Sugar Mountain Snow Ball,’ now in paperback, is set in a small New Hampshire town.

Arts & Entertainment, Books, Life & Culture

Book review: Michelle Dean on the women writers who held their own in the boys’ club

by Matthew Price Newsday April 29, 2018April 27, 2018

“Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion” explores the likes of Dorothy Parker, Joan Didion, Hannah Arendt and Nora Ephron, among others.

Books, Business, Food

With hard work and a good idea, two cousins launched a fast-growing business

by Peggy Grodinsky April 25, 2018April 24, 2018

A new book details how Cousins Lobster grew from one food truck in one city to many food trucks, and more, around the country.

Arts & Entertainment, Books

Earthlings and aliens cavort in crazy, comic ‘Opera’

by Michael Berry April 22, 2018April 22, 2018

Catherynne M. Valente’s latest sci-fi gem is funny, fast and charming yet touches on some serious themes, too.

Arts & Entertainment, Books, Life & Culture

With first children’s book, Peaks Island artist Scott Kelley creates a world without fear

by Bob Keyes April 22, 2018April 21, 2018

‘I Am Birch’ is a parable for our times and a reminder that just because someone says something is true, it doesn’t make it so.

Arts & Entertainment, Books

‘Natural Causes’ makes case that we’re ‘killing ourselves to live longer’

by Mary Ann Gwinn Newsday April 22, 2018April 20, 2018

Barbara Ehrenreich, the renowned polemicist, scholar and scientist, mounts an intellectual assault on America’s obsession with youth, anti-aging and the denial of death.