Earle Shettleworth, Jr.’s ‘A Century of Portland Artists, 1820-1920’ introduces the city and its cultural landscape in the first 100 years of Maine statehood.
Review
‘Locust Lane’ is as perceptive as it is compulsively readable
Stephen Amidon’s new novel tells the story of a young woman killed in an affluent suburb and the ugly truths that emerge about several elite denizens.
Art review: Bates pairs Hartley drawings with works by contemporary artists
The exhibit has been long in the making and is well worth a visit to the Lewiston college museum.
Theater review: Sisters share woes, wisecracks in ‘Crimes of the Heart’
The dark comedy is playing at Good Theater in Portland.
How will climate change destroy us? ‘The Deluge’ imagines the scenarios
Stephen Markley’s new novel is part thriller, part horror, part all-too-real. It’s scary, instructive and also entertaining.
Poems of female agency and survival anchor Cate Marvin’s fourth collection
Amid the harrowing themes, several poems center on loving mother-daughter bonds.
Art review: Portland photo museum puts on another jam-packed show
Maine Museum of Photographic Arts features works of 24 artists in ‘Twelfth Night.’
Brendan Fraser is great, ‘The Whale’ not so much
It’s impossible – and, frankly, surpassingly uncharitable – not to root for Brendan Fraser, one of Hollywood’s most likable actors, whose comeback has been one of the most heartening movie stories of 2022. But admiring Fraser’s performance as a man paralyzed by grief and self-loathing in “The Whale” doesn’t necessarily mean liking the movie he’s […]
Remake of Swedish film adds heart, loses soul
As the title character in “A Man Called Otto,” Tom Hanks plays a cantankerous widower with an affinity for home repair. When it comes to this tear-jerker’s own makeover – it’s based on Hannes Holm’s 2016 Swedish film “A Man Called Ove,” inspired by Fredrik Backman’s 2012 novel – some sanded-off edges threaten to throw […]
An old, monied family unravels in Anne Whitney Pierce’s latest novel
Set during the turbulent 1960s and early ’70s, ‘Down to the River’ beautifully depicts the dwindling of a family fortune, brothers drinking to excess, and inseparable cousins leaving childhood behind.