Think of the United States in the 1970s, and a number of images come to mind, few of them appealing: disco music; gas shortages; the Watergate...
When Barack Obama was elected president in November 2008, Ousmane Power-Greene recalls having a terrible thought: that a racist might try to...
Like so many people, Catherine Newman’s life has been touched by cancer. In 2015, Newman, an Amherst writer, lost a close friend, Ali, whom she’d...
‘I love Paris in the springtime,” Ella Fitzgerald once sang, and why not? A glass of wine in a cafe, flowers and budding trees along the Seine, the...
WORTHINGTON — Former Daily Hampshire Gazette editor in chief Joan Livingston will read from her latest mystery novel at an event at the...
It’s that time of year again: naming my favorite books of the year. Like last year, I did a lot of reading in 2021, at least in part because of a...
Two writers with local connections are finalists for the National Book Award — one of them for the third time.Novelist and short-story writer...
Back in the early 2000s, Sefi Atta was searching for a publisher for her first novel, “Everything Good Will Come,” a story of the friendship of two...
Ruth Ozeki’s novels have always been about more than plot and character development. From the dangers of industrial agriculture and meat production...
The Human ZooBy Sabina Murray; Grove Atlantic Press Sabina Murray’s previous novel, the New York Times Notable Book “Valiant Gentlemen,” was an...
Some years ago, Celia Jeffries began writing a story about an older Englishwoman looking back on a life she’s kept secret for years: a time when...