Arts Review
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PublishedMarch 29, 2020
Book review: Race, privilege and toilet duty: Life at Harvard for a black freshman in 1959
In 'The Last Negroes at Harvard,' Kent Garrett recalls his undergraduate days, and not fondly.
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PublishedMarch 29, 2020
Book review: In Tudor times, murder shadows the creation of magical stones
Bianca, the plucky heroine of 'The Alchemist of Lost Souls,' tries to unravel the crimes. In doing so, she puts herself in harm's way.
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PublishedMarch 22, 2020
‘The Mirror and the Light’ is a masterful finale to Hilary Mantel’s Cromwell Trilogy
Mantel builds suspense by turning readers into alarmed onlookers as Cromwell meets his fate.
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PublishedMarch 22, 2020
How far will artists go to live the creative life?
Portlander Anne Elliott’s debut collection of interlinked short stories offers some answers.
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PublishedMarch 15, 2020
One local writer, two books, and two very different emotions
Charlotte Agell's latest publications for kids boldly address both joy and sorrow.
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PublishedMarch 15, 2020
Art review: Captain Bisbee and crew beam up from Jersey for diverse exhibit at Cove Street
'Gardenship: First Voyage' shows what the Brunswick sculptor and his team of artists have been up to during their nine-month residency.
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PublishedMarch 9, 2020
‘The Way Back’ review: Ben Affleck is the whole show here — and he’s good
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PublishedMarch 8, 2020
Obscure chapter of Maine’s history – 19th-century spiritualist camp – has unexpected resonance
Writer Mira Ptacin skillfully blends history, contemporary storytelling and memoir in 'The In-Betweens: The Spiritualists, Mediums, and Legends of Camp Etna.'
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PublishedMarch 8, 2020
Art review: Activist artist couple’s PMA exhibit both playful and provocative
New York-based Carrie Moyer, a painter, and Sheila Pepe, a fiber-based installation artist, who met in Maine, return with 'Tabernacles for Trying Times.'
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PublishedMarch 8, 2020
All the presidents’ books
In 'Author in Chief,' Craig Fehrman tells little-known stories about how presidents, or their ghostwriters, produced, published and sold their books.
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