Books

Published
June 6, 2021

The story of Europe’s infamous witch trials gets the Monty Python treatment

The comedy that runs through Rivka Galchen's "Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch" is a magical brew of absurdity and brutality.
Published
June 6, 2021

Bedside Table: How to get through tough times? This book, set in World War II, has some answers
Published
June 6, 2021

Maine writers, poets and artists respond to ‘A Dangerous New World’

In the pages of this collection on climate change, loss, grief, hope – and calls to action – mingle.
Published
June 2, 2021

David Diop wins International Booker Prize with World War I story

The international contest is open to fiction in any language that has been translated into English.
Published
May 30, 2021

Rockport librarian wins Crime Wave Flash Fiction contest

Some clues: a lime-green handbag, a beige car and $100 bill in the parking lot.

Published
May 30, 2021

Bedside table: An animal helped this reader get through the pandemic
Published
May 30, 2021

‘River Voices’: In a new volume of essays, the Presumpscot gets its due

Artists and others describe the 25-mile-long river from the varied lenses of science, history and literature.
Published
May 28, 2021

Maine Literary Awards names winners, honors Carolyn Chute

'Blue Summer' by Jim Nichols wins for fiction, and Kerri Asenault's 'Mill Town' for nonfiction.
Published
May 26, 2021

‘Very Hungry Caterpillar’ author Eric Carle dies at 91

Carle wrote and-or illustrated more than 75 books, and his signature illustrations were made by piecing together chiefly tissue paper that he had painted with various colors and textures.
Published
May 23, 2021

Paranoia lurks in suspenseful ‘who-wrote-it?’

The new novel by Jean Hanff Korelitz, the author behind "The Undoing," is a sharp and twisty tale of literary paranoia.