Review - Portland Press Herald

A stirring guide to the great Dutch painters

by Sebastian Smee The Washington Post October 29, 2023October 16, 2023

In ‘The Upside-Down World,’ Pulitzer Prize winner Benjamin Moser combines biography, art criticism and touches of memoir.

Arts & Entertainment, Review

‘Anatomy of a Fall’ is a twisty and icily cerebral thriller

by Ann Hornaday The Washington Post October 29, 2023October 27, 2023

Sandra Hüller delivers a naturalistic tour de force of spiky confidence and lurking maternal guilt in this whodunit/marital drama.

Arts & Entertainment, Books, Review

‘Making Maine’ gives a decidedly unsentimental picture of the nascent state

by Thomas Urquhart October 29, 2023October 23, 2023

Scoundrels, smugglers and their ilk helped to make Maine, according to a new history of the War of 1812.

Arts & Entertainment, Do This, Review

Theater review: The challenges of modern motherhood front and center in ‘Paint Night’

by Steve Feeney October 23, 2023October 23, 2023

Sisterhood rules in Carey Crim’s latest work, which is having its world premiere at The Public in Lewiston.

Arts & Entertainment, Books, Review

Two children’s books make the case for new types of heroines

by Amy MacDonald October 22, 2023October 16, 2023

To the smart, spunky protagonists in the latest books by local writers Gail Donovan and Megan Frazer Blakemore, we say, you go, girls!

Arts & Entertainment, Review

Art review: See work by Alison Hildreth ranging from her early career to still wet

by Jorge S. Arango October 22, 2023October 17, 2023

Speedwell Projects and the Center for Maine Contemporary Art both have shows up that celebrate the artist’s ongoing career.

Arts & Entertainment, Do This, Maine, Review

Theater review: Follow a budding romance’s slow burn in ‘Fireflies’

by Steve Feeney October 16, 2023October 16, 2023

The tender play, set in small-town Texas, opens Good Theater’s season.

Arts & Entertainment, Books, Review

It’s the time of year for horror and weird tales. Here are some favorites.

by Michael Dirda The Washington Post October 15, 2023October 10, 2023

The October Country. The season of mists and melancholy. That time of year when graveyards yawn and things go bump in the night and we break out worn copies of Herbert Wise and Phyllis Fraser’s “Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural” or the collected ghost stories of Vernon Lee and M.R. James. In 2023, […]