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By | January 01, 0001

Authors talking: Spring readings in Boston

By ear
America’s best young novelist, Britain’s most popular mystery writer, a bearded indie rocker, and a dead master populate this spring’s mandatory literary events.
By EUGENIA WILLIAMSON | March 17, 2011

Wesley Stace's sublime puzzle book

Ah, sweet music
Early morning, June 23, 1923, a gunshot wakes the neighbors. The resulting discovery -- two persons poisoned, one shot in an apparent murder suicide -- shakes not only quiet Kensington but also the musical world.
By CLEA SIMON | March 01, 2011

13 must-attend readings of winter 2011

Writers fight the good fight at local book events
Winter is dreadful. Books are the opposite. We offer you the following author events as antidotes to sedentary overeating and bad television.
By EUGENIA WILLIAMSON | January 04, 2011

Writers celebrate Barry Hannah, the biggest literary badass you’ve never heard of

Captain Maximus R.I.P.
Gene Kwak first came across the work of Barry Hannah while studying journalism at the University of Nebraska.
By EUGENIA WILLIAMSON | November 02, 2010

By | January 01, 0001

Fall Books Preview: Getting booked

Readings, festivals, and other seasonal literary events
Two Sedarises, two New Yorker favorites, and a famous neurologist are among the highlights of this fall’s book events.
By EUGENIA WILLIAMSON | September 14, 2010

Interview: Gary Shteyngart

Dystopia now
Onionskin jeans are transparent, cost a fortune, and send your fuckability rating off the charts.
By EUGENIA WILLIAMSON | September 07, 2010

By | January 01, 0001

Loss leader

Jill McCorkle's joyful sorrow
The stories in Jill McCorkle's new collection are about the battle to stay conscious and be truthful with yourself — to live beyond illusion.
By SUSAN CHAMANDY | September 30, 2009

By | January 01, 0001

Literary import

Ploughshares lands a new editor
One of the first things Ladette Randolph tells me is that she’s a fifth-generation Nebraskan, that her great-great grandparents settled there, that the landscape there, particularly in the western part of the state, where her novel is set, is “like being in the middle of the ocean — that kind of erasure.”
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN | September 24, 2008

Book mad

Interview: Keith Gessen’s young literary life
He speaks quickly, with a friendly, nervous laugh, in cadences that sound like a cross between Ira Glass and Martin Scorsese.
By JON GARELICK | April 15, 2008

By | January 01, 0001

Old school

Dyer's thing was watercolors and gouaches of romantic fairy tale country cottages, snowy mountain lakes, and ruins of old stone arches and doorways.
Back in 1928, a Providence Journal headline dubbed painter Hezekiah Anthony Dyer a "militant anti-Modernist." Modern art was just about showing off, he said.
By GREG COOK | February 10, 2009

Review: Cherry Blossoms

Well-crafted and sincere, but ultimately tiresome
In Doris Dörrie's emotionally loaded melodrama Kirschblüten — Hanami , an aging German couple, Trudi (Hannelore Eisner) and Rudi (Elmer Wrapper), grow tighter than ever.
By GERALD PEARY | February 12, 2009

By | January 01, 0001