MJ AndersenSep 27, 20193 min read‘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...
MJ AndersenAug 27, 20193 min readFour 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...
MJ AndersenJul 21, 20193 min readFour 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...
MJ AndersenJun 23, 20193 min readFour 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 min readFour 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...
MJ AndersenApr 24, 20194 min readFour 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 min readFour 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...
MJ AndersenFeb 24, 20194 min readFour 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 min readFour 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...
MJ AndersenNov 19, 20183 min readFour 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...
MJ AndersenOct 29, 20183 min readFour Takes: If you want to know what what happened to the left, look at Wisconsin, The Boston GlobeGLOBE CORRSEPONDENT OCTOBER 26, 2018 If the states are the laboratories of democracy, Wisconsin has been smashing all the test tubes....
MJ AndersenSep 10, 20184 min read‘Mutiny: Works by Géricault’ Review: Equine Passions and Anxieties, The Wall Street JournalThéodore Géricault used the iconic animal to capture his tumultuous world on paper and canvas. M.J. Andersen Sept. 8, 2018 No one will...
MJ AndersenAug 19, 20183 min readFour Takes: What you really learned in college, The Boston Sunday GlobeGLOBE CORRESPONDENT AUGUST 17, 2018 Some 20 million students will shortly flock to US colleges, roughly a fifth of them for the first...
MJ AndersenJul 20, 20183 min readFour Takes: Why solitude is not a bad thing, The Boston Sunday GlobeGLOBE CORRESPONDENT JULY 20, 2018 Consider Montaigne. We have been told, often, that the one-time mayor of Bordeaux was our first great...
MJ AndersenJul 14, 20184 min read‘French Pastels: Treasures From the Vault’ Review: Delicate and Delightful, The Wall Street JournalJuly 14, 2018 Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts presents works by Degas, Millet and others, rarely shown due to the fragility of their...
MJ AndersenJun 17, 20183 min readFour Takes: Figuring out our Fathers, Boston Sunday Globe 6.21.18 Most of us spend a lifetime trying to read our fathers. Absent or overbearing, loving or cruel, they can bind us to an unceasing riddle....
MJ AndersenJun 17, 20183 min read‘Inventur—Art in Germany, 1943- 55’ Review: Creativity in the Shadow of War The Wall Street JournalApril 18, 2018 Cambridge, Mass. At some point during World War II, Juro Kubicêk picked up a copy of “Mein Kampf” and set about revising...
MJ AndersenJun 8, 20184 min readFour Takes: Recalling the birth of environmentalism, Boston Sunday Globe 4.21.18Along with enough bacteria to fill a large soup can, the average American unwittingly carries around the ideas of William Vogt. Born in...
MJ AndersenJun 4, 20184 min readArt Review: Ellsworth Kelly’s Monument to JoyEllsworth Kelly’s Austin, the only building he ever designed, is a luminous high-art temple. The Wall Street Journal, March 21, 2018...
