Three books tackle the complexities of friendship, through life and death, The Boston Globe
February 17, 2023 It is sometimes lamented that literature says too little about friendship. Lately though, counterexamples seem to be...
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‘Reading Lolita in Tehran’ and other accounts of the oppression of women in Iran, The Boston Globe
January 29, 2023 Shirin Ebadi’s troubles may have begun on the playground, when she discovered an inner compulsion to defend underdogs....
Philosophers tackle a timely question: Can forgiveness and anger coexist? The Boston Sunday Globe
Sunday, November 27, 2022 Amid the ongoing tide of mass shootings, the case of Dylann Roof remains chillingly distinct. One evening in...
Related Reading: Three new books look at the roots of today's conservatism, The Boston Sunday Globe
October 30, 2022 How did we wind up with Trump? The question should have been handed off to historians long ago. Instead, we wake to it...
RELATED READING: Two books on pandemic parenting, The Boston Sunday Globe
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Related Reading: A city of one’s own, The women who found themselves by moving to New York
July 31, 2022 Several years ago, my former Providence Journal colleague Carol McCabe mentioned that she had been one of the young women...
Twilight of the white guys, The Boston Sunday Globe
June 26, 2022 John Cheever knew a vanishing world when he saw one. In a memorable introduction, he linked his collected stories to a time...
On 'Stalingrad' and Stalin, The Boston Sunday Globe
May 29, 2022 Repressive states tend to like their authors best when they are safely dead. Joseph Stalin admired Nikolai Gogol but...
Related Reading: On the increasing danger of cyberattacks, The Boston Sunday Globe
April 24, 2022 One day in 2007, Russian hackers took down key online services in Estonia. This action, now generally recognized as the...
On Women’s History Month, books about Shirley Chisholm and by Stacey Abrams, The Boston Sunday Globe
March 27, 2022 Fifty years ago, Shirley Chisholm announced her candidacy for president of the United States. The response was widely,...
Related Reading: On rural America, The Boston Sunday Globe
February 27, 2022 Who should speak for or about rural Americans is perennially up for grabs. For a while, it was J.D. Vance, whose...
Four Takes: On water, too little or too much, The Boston Sunday Globe
January 30, 2022 Lucas Bessire suffers from what Elizabeth Hardwick has called the stain of place. He tried running away from home to...
Four Takes: On good food and sweet homes
December 26, 2021 Show of hands: who’s up for another sheet-pan recipe? Just as I thought. In the roughly two years since the pandemic...
On spycraft: New books take on the CIA, The Boston Sunday Globe
November 21, 2021 Since its creation in 1947, the Central Intelligence Agency has proven an elusive symbol of the nation’s identity: by...
Four Takes: On college, opportunity, and merit, The Boston Sunday Globe
October 24, 2021 After days of immersing myself in the state of US college admissions, the story I could not shake was this: In 2015,...
Four Takes: to save the oceans, fall in love with them, The Boston Globe
September 27, 2021 Sometimes the impulse to seek our own image in nature runs aground. Consider the anglerfish. The female — beady-eyed,...
Four Takes: On Maine, The Boston Sunday Globe
July 25, 2021 In July, the summer people fan out to homes in Maine. For those who can only fantasize, books set in the state offer a fine...
Four Takes: 50 years after the Pentagon Papers, does a free press still function?
June 27, 2021 Fifty years ago, on June 27, Daniel Ellsberg distributed his last remaining copies of what are now known as the Pentagon...
Four Takes: Four books that find us heading West, The Boston Sunday Globe
May 23, 2021 In the 1830s, curious Americans paid 25 cents apiece to see Joice Heth, an elderly Black woman reputed to have been George...
Four Takes: Books about gardens can help satisfy cravings for plant life
April 25, 2021 Even among apartment dwellers, spring can prompt longings to connect with the soil. Perhaps for that reason, the Boston...
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