Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Review: Pontine explores Hawthorne's ancestral thriller

Spirit world
Perhaps nowhere in America is the past as tangible a presence as it is in New England.
By MEGAN GRUMBLING | May 04, 2011

Review: Easy A

Emma Stone brings her A game
At least Emma Stone gets high marks in this teen comedy.
By TOM MEEK | September 21, 2010

Spooky? A bit, but Massachusetts's cemeteries are also the bucolic, final resting places of many great American writers.
I asked the question this way: "Where would you want to be buried?" Not "do," but "would." That is to say if, by chance, you were to die, unlikely as that might be, where would you want to spend all of nonexistence?
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN | June 16, 2010

Hardboiled hub

The city’s gritty, criminal underbelly has redefined the dark, artistic vision known as Boston noir
When I was growing up in Roslindale a few decades back — among tribes of ignorant, second-generation immigrant kids whose favorite words began with “f” and “n” and who liked to torture small animals and beat up small children before they moved on to their future vocations as petty criminals, dead dope users, or real-estate agents.
By PETER KEOUGH | October 21, 2009

Max & Dylan's Kitchen & Bar

From the owners of Scollay Square, another fine bar-restaurant that does everything fairly well
Who is Max? Who is Dylan? The casual visitor cannot know. We know that the owners also have Scollay Square (which is not located in what used to be that square), so we have our suspicions that Max and Dylan are children or cats, or a confected evocation of the contrasting merits of ethnicity and cool.
By ROBERT NADEAU | July 15, 2009

Before the Goldrush

Putnam Smith can't quite find his way home
With a name right out of a Nathaniel Hawthorne novel and hand-pressed CD packaging graced with images of antique farming tools, Putnam Smith does nothing to dispel the notion that he wouldn't mind living in 1809 instead of 2009.
By SAM PFEIFLE | May 27, 2009

An awkward adaptation

Times change, but the frailties of the human heart . . . not so much.
Times change, but the frailties of the human heart . . . not so much. That overworked muscle can be haplessly generous or slammed-door shut. Nathaniel Hawthorne's mid-19th century novel The Scarlet Letter still stands as a perceptive examination of the eternal internal battle between love and hate.
By BILL RODRIGUEZ | May 13, 2009

Ride, Captain, Ride

Sundlun gets off the road. Plus, as A for the Gamm, and corporate lies
The mighty Captain Blowhard was back in the news quite prominently with his stop sign-rolling, curb-jumping antics behind the wheel that led the Jamestown police to suggest that he come out with his driver's license and hands up, following similar assessments by the North Kingstown gendarmes and the URI security force.
By PHILLIPE AND JORGE | May 12, 2009

Rooted

Jhumpa Lahiri tends her garden
Jhumpa Lahiri won a Pulitzer Prize with her first collection of short stories, Interpreter of Maladies .
By ED SIEGEL | April 22, 2008

Left out

There's a lot in Portland's past the "history" books won't tell you
I first heard about Stanley five years ago, from a firefighter up on Munjoy Hill.
By BRENDAN HUGHES | January 30, 2008

On Portland’s poet

Celebrating Longfellow’s words
It’s a testament to much of what’s good about America that one of her first and most popular poets had such reverence, and such affection, for so many of her stories.
By MEGAN GRUMBLING | October 31, 2007

What’s in a name?

Why it’s Fitz Henry, not Fitz Hugh, Lane — and why it matters
The discovery that we’ve had Lane’s name wrong since at least 1913 has prompted questions about what else scholars have gotten wrong about him.
By GREG COOK | August 31, 2007

The mind’s eye

Trinity gets dramatic on WRNI
Several Trinity Repertory Company actors sit before microphones in a WRNI studio.
By BILL RODRIGUEZ | April 03, 2007

Read all about it

Some of Boston’s best bars have a literary history
Riding there red line from Central Square to Park Street recently, a friend of mine from Philadelphia surveyed the length of the train and said, “You don’t see this in Philly.”
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN | September 01, 2006

In the mind of the beholder

Kate Ericson and Mel Ziegler at MIT
Groundbreaking takes on new meaning when it’s applied to the work of Kate Ericson and Mel Ziegler, the subjects of an important new show at MIT’s List Center.
By CHRISTOPHER MILLIS | March 15, 2006