EASTHAMPTON — With their backs against pillows and their outstretched legs crossed side by side on the floor, two kindergarten students read books...
HUNTINGTON — Human beings have many incentives in life that drive them to feats great and small, with food, love, religious faith and patriotism...
PLAINFIELD — This July 4, a community reading event will read the Declaration of Independence and a powerful response to it from one of the...
I jumped on that “Best of” bandwagon a few years ago when I started compiling my 10 favorite books of the year for the Gazette. But in 2020, the...
Starting a few years ago, Alexander George made a splash when he began hosting small shows at which he demonstrated his ability as a “mentalist”: a...
If concerts, dance festivals and theater can find a presence on the internet in the midst of the pandemic, why not literary events?This month...
Last month, I found myself rereading “The Worst Hard Time,” Timothy Egan’s excellent narrative account of the Dust Bowl, which won a National Book...
AMHERST – After the mall in Holyoke was closed down to help stem the spread of the coronavirus, Alysha Pabon of Amherst couldn’t have her eyebrows...
WHATELY – Teammates Sofia Patten and Amanda Fuller were smooth with their passing to one another.But this time instead of a field hockey ball, the...
EASTHAMPTON — A finalist for the Edgar Award for Best First Novel. A winner of the Pushcart Prize. A winner of the John Gardner Fiction Book Award....
AMHERST – John Sullivan and Karla Bertrand, both visiting from Boston, enjoy a crisp late summer afternoon Friday near the fountain in Sweetser...
AMHERST — Any casual observer who drove up to Crocker Farm Elementary School on Monday afternoon may have at first seen the presence of a fire...