Since the death of George Floyd and widespread Black Lives Matter protests, Mainers – both children and adults – have been reading more about race.
books
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: My wife and I just gave away a small library. It hurt
Twenty-seven boxes later, a Scarborough native reflects on what was both ‘a depressing process’ and ‘a comforting review of our adult lives.’
advertisement
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books, Review
The declining fortunes of a founding family of Maine unspool with a light touch
In Jason Brown’s latest collection of linked stories, ‘A Faithful But Melancholy Account of Several Barbarities Lately Committed,’ everybody has plans for the family’s decaying property.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books, Review
Charles Yu’s ‘Interior Chinatown’ brilliantly skewers Hollywood typecasting
Written in the form of a screenplay, the novel stars Generic Asian Man, who is stuck playing Background Oriental Male.
Posted inThe Forecaster
Portland teacher launches children’s book
PORTLAND — A party to celebrate the release of “Magnificent Homespun Brown,” a children’s book by Presumpscot Elementary School kindergarten teacher Samara Cole Doyon is set for this weekend. The event will run from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 18, at the Indigo Arts Alliance, located at 60 Cove St. The 32-page book, […]
Posted inBooks, Lewiston-Auburn
New book brings more attention to Lewiston’s Somali community
Cynthia Anderson’s “Home Now” offers a portrait of a city coping with an influx of immigrants and discovering in the process a path to a brighter future.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books, Nation & World, News
Elizabeth Spencer, prolific short-story writer and chronicler of the South, dies at 98
She often spent years crafting her novels, but ‘The Light in the Piazza’ was written in a single, cabin-feverish month in Montreal.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books, Maine, News
Maine author Andrew Clements, who wrote children’s book ‘Frindle,’ dies at 70
Clements wrote more than 80 children’s books, including the text of picture books about a pampered Egyptian cat, an unbecoming fish and a Christmas in which Mrs. Claus stands in for Santa.
Posted inSports
Love wildlife? Love reading? Check out our outdoors book guide
We went to the experts for our holiday books guide.