Arts Review

Published
March 6, 2022

Karen Cheung’s ‘The Impossible City’ is a tribute to Hong Kong’s vanishing way of life

Cheung introduces readers to an array of characters and tackles themes such as belonging, postcolonial identity and the meaning of home in a nearly uninhabitable city.
Published
March 6, 2022

Book review: Poems and prints commune in ‘What Rough Beasts’

Leslie Moore mediates on the natural world and what it has to teach us.
Published
March 6, 2022

This year’s Oscar-nominated shorts are long on dark material
Published
March 6, 2022

Art review: Distinctive styles display nature’s emotional range

'Human/Nature' at Alice Gauvin Gallery in Portland features four artists with very different aesthetics.
Published
March 6, 2022

In joyless ‘The Batman,’ Robert Pattinson channels the vampire Edward Cullen

Published
February 27, 2022

Book review: Distorted identity deepens the mystery of ‘Mirror Lake’

An English translation of Quebec author Andrée A. Michaud's 2006 thriller was published last year.
Published
February 27, 2022

There are few bones to pick in this touching story about healing
Published
February 27, 2022

Book review: ‘Mercy Street’ may be the last novel about abortion before Roe v. Wade is dismantled
Published
February 27, 2022

Art review: North Atlantic Triennial unites a vast region through common culture and climate

'Down North' is the Portland Museum of Art's inaugural collaboration with Reykjavik Art Museum in Iceland and the Bildmuseet in Sweden.
Published
February 21, 2022

Talented duo of pianists charms Portland Symphony Orchestra audience

Sivan Silver and Gil Garburg were backed by a small coterie of PSO players under the baton of Eckart Preu.