Arts Review

Published
August 9, 2020

Concert review: Chamber musicians meet challenge of performing remotely

The Portland Chamber Music Festival continues with performances Sunday and Thursday.
Published
August 9, 2020

In ‘Memorial Drive,’ Natasha Trethewey reclaims her mother’s life from the man who took it

Trethewey excavates her mother's life, transforming her from tragic victim to luminous human being.
Published
August 9, 2020

Movie review: ‘She Dies Tomorrow’ is a queasily effective horror film for the pandemic era
Published
August 2, 2020

Teenage angst and something much deeper in ‘How to Build a Heart’

In Maria Padian’s new YA novel, Izzy Crawford, the new girl in school, tries to figure out her place in the world.
Published
August 2, 2020

A defiant woman, a dazzling city and the fate of feudal Japan

Through multiple marriages and divorces, deception, disgrace and disownment, the real 19th-century woman at the heart of "Stranger in the Shogun's City" was determined to do things her way.

Published
July 26, 2020

Book review: An old wound casts a shadow over the wily thriller ‘Freefall’

Jessica Barry’s debut centers on a widowed Mainer and her estranged daughter, who is presumed dead in a plane crash.
Published
July 19, 2020

Movie review: Adaptation of ‘The Painted Bird’ is a shocking, deeply moving allegory of war
Published
July 19, 2020

In ‘Becoming Duchess Goldblatt, a Twitter celebrity is ready for her close up

But her creator remains anonymous.
Published
July 19, 2020

In Bruce Robert Coffin’s latest whodunit, the beautiful maitre d’ of a gourmet restaurant in Portland turns up dead

The answer to the mystery may be 'Within Plain Sight,' but it takes the debonair Det. John Byron to unravel it.
Published
July 12, 2020

Book review: What does it mean to be an American? ‘Union’ looks at the answers

Colin Woodard's newest eye-opening history delves into the struggle to answer the question through the writings of five Americans.