MJ AndersenJul 253 minFour Takes: Music and composers, The Boston Sunday GlobeJuly 26, 2020 The suspension of live performances at Tanglewood added another dreary loss to this pandemic summer. In the green lap of th...
MJ AndersenJun 283 minFour Takes: The mysteries of fatherhood June 28, 2020 If this year’s graduates have been under-celebrated, June’s other traditional honorees — fathers — have carried on much as ...
MJ AndersenJun 13 minFour Takes; Authors fascinated with other authors, The Boston Sunday GlobeMay 31, 2020 Readers, we are stuck at home. If, like me, you detest reading electronically, and have qualms about getting books delivered...
MJ AndersenApr 263 minFour Takes:Earth Day, 50 years of celebrating the planet, The Boston Sunday GlobeApril 25, 2020 The author’s longstanding fascination with 18th-century explorer James Cook draws these disparate locations together. For ...
MJ AndersenFeb 163 minIn four tantalizing titles, food for thought - The Boston GlobeFebruary 16, 2020 A former New York Times restaurant critic, Reichl remains among the most appealing food writers in the business. She fe...
MJ AndersenJan 263 minFour Takes: Mount Olympus revisited in four contemporary titles, The Boston Globe January 26, 2020 In classical mythology, the gods cannot get enough of defying higher-ups. The latest to cross this tripwire are Harry an...
MJ AndersenJan 2315 minLeaving the PaperPolitics/ Letters This essay was cited among “Notable Essays and Literary Nonfiction of 2018” in “The Best American Essays,” published by...
MJ AndersenDec 28, 20193 minFour Takes: A boom, a backlash, and a reckoning with Big Tech -The Boston GlobeDecember 28, 2019 Sing, O Muse, of geeks in garages. Then tell of Big Technology’s fall. Somewhere an epic tale is taking shape, and it g...
MJ AndersenDec 28, 20193 minFour Takes: Native narratives of reclaimed identity and recovered sovereignty -The Boston GlobeNovember 21, 2019 On Dec. 29, 1890, US soldiers massacred more than 150 Lakota people at Wounded Knee, in South Dakota. In a view that ha...
MJ AndersenNov 3, 20193 minFour Takes: Digging in to the looming challenge of sustainable food, The Boston Sunday GlobeNovember 3, 2019 Mark Bittman may have done the most in recent years to focus Americans’ attention on ethical dining. A decade ago, in “F...
MJ AndersenSep 27, 20193 min‘The Lager Queen of Minnesota,ʼ and three more tales of brothers and sisters, The Boston GlobeSeptember 26, 2019 Stradal first set out his beguiling literary wares in “Kitchens of the Great Midwest,” using eight interconnected narr...
MJ AndersenAug 27, 20193 minFour Takes: Looking back on Woodstock, The Boston Sunday GlobeAugust 22, 2019 The old joke goes that if you remember Woodstock, you were not there. I was not there, in the sense usually meant. Most l...
MJ AndersenJul 21, 20193 minFour Takes: Location, location, location, The Boston Sunday GlobeJuly 21, 2019 The 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building still unfortunately dominates most peopleʼs conception of Oklahom...
MJ AndersenJun 23, 20193 minFour Takes: Out of the closet, into the fray: Stonewall revisited, The Boston Sunday GlobeEarlier this month, Boston’s 49th Pride Parade drew tens of thousands to the city, and went off happily hitchless. As for several years ...
MJ AndersenJun 6, 20194 minFour Takes: Lifetime job insecurity in the gig economy, The Boston Sunday GlobeMay 23, 2019 Hundreds of thousands of Americans joined a nationwide strike supporting an eight-hour work day on May 1, 1886. A few days l...
MJ AndersenApr 24, 20194 minFour Takes: Deadly deluges of human folly, The Boston Sunday Globe April 18, 2019 Recent flooding in the Midwest brought frightening images into blessedly dry living rooms. It also brought a sense of déjà...
MJ AndersenApr 24, 20193 minFour Takes: Through the eyes of a refugee, The Boston Sunday GlobeMarch 29, 2019 Emergency or not, what’s happening at the US border with Mexico concerns all Americans. But dilemmas about how many migran...
MJ AndersenFeb 24, 20194 minFour Takes: The decline and rise of Malcolm X, The Boston Sunday GlobeFebruary 24, 2019 It could be said that the spiritual journey of Malcolm X began with copying the dictionary. “Aardvark,” he would recall...
MJ AndersenDec 24, 20183 minFour Takes: Think concerns about privacy are new? Think again, The Boston Sunday GlobeDecember 21, 2018 I recently acquired a vintage postcard depicting a lake in Minnesota. On the back is a note written by Magnus Johnson t...
MJ AndersenNov 19, 20183 minFour Takes: At the centenary of its end, World War I through a prism, The Boston Sunday GlobeNOVEMBER 15, 2018 Since its conclusion 100 years ago this month, World War I has spawned innumerable books bent on sorting through the fa...