What you already know about California’s notorious Golden State Killer and his prolific string of rapes and murders in the 1970s and ’80s might depend entirely on how plugged in you are to the world of true crime. There is no succinct way to describe our culture’s surge in true-crime stories, not just for entertainment […]
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Movie review: Will Ferrell dials down the crazy in run-of-the-mill rom-com ‘Eurovision Song Contest’
As Will Ferrell movies go, “Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga” ranks somewhere in that vast, gray, paunchy middle area, perhaps wedged just above the waistband of “Zoolander 2” but just below the belly button of “Kicking and Screaming.” If the movie, about an inept Icelandic music duo with dreams of winning the […]
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Art review: Leon Benn paintings capture the lushness of summer in the city
The exhibit runs through Aug. 22 at Grant Wahlquist Gallery in Portland.
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Stephen King’s latest, a collection of novellas, is scary in unforeseen ways
The title story, ‘If it Bleeds,” reprises Holly Gibney, King’s current favorite recurring character.
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The elusive truths of Melania Trump
Unearthing the First Lady’s history took years, journalist Mary Jordan writes in In “The Art of Her Deal,” as her reporting was stymied by the Trumps’ aggressive attempts to erase Melania’s past.
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Book review: Small stories with big themes of love, loss and starting anew
In Richard Ford’s new story collection, characters reflect on their lives with precision and clarity no matter how tough the challenges they face.
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Writer Connie Schultz captures four generations of women in a hardscrabble Ohio town
A quiet novel, ‘The Daughters of Erietown’ is a reminder that gentler times were not always gentle.
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George T. Ruby, a man of his time – and ours
A black Texas hero around the time of the Civil War, Ruby was raised and educated in Maine.
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In the midst of despair, discovering a way to have hope
Holocaust survivor Viktor E. Frankl said “Yes to Life.” Written just after the war, the book is being published in English for the first time. It feels sadly relevant.
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Six strangers journey across a futuristic West to Monument City. But what awaits them there?
In ‘Anthropocene Rag,’ Alex Irvine employs a gamelike structure, a large cast with conflicting motivations, and his impressive inventiveness building new worlds.