Anita Lichman and her sons, Jacob and Max Lichman-Paul, hope ‘Making Room for Cancer’ will help families like theirs navigate a parent’s diagnosis and treatment.
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Rudolfo Anaya, ‘godfather’ of Chicano literature, dies at 82
The ‘Bless Me, Ultima’ novelist, who influenced a generation of Latino writers, was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Barack Obama in 2016.
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How Maine crime writers are rethinking the way they portray police
The current calls for police reform and ends to racism have prompted Maine writers of crime novels to rethink, and in some cases change, their work.
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Faith Notes: ‘This Life we Share,’ a book review
In this time of social distancing, when I can’t be in church or hang out with friends as much as I’d like, I’ve been spending more time reading. On Sunday mornings my family gathers around our kitchen table to read the Bible and a contemporary edition of John Bunyan’s classic allegory, “Pilgrim’s Progress.” Before bed, […]
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Brunswick author teams up with astrophysicist to answer ‘silly, yet totally smart’ questions about space in new book
What do Black Holes Eat for Dinner? And Other Silly, yet Totally Smart Questions about Space,” by Katie Coppens and Grant Tremblay, published by Tumblehome Learning, is available July 1.
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Maine libraries and bookstores seeing increased demand for books about race
Since the death of George Floyd and widespread Black Lives Matter protests, Mainers – both children and adults – have been reading more about race.
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Commentary: My wife and I just gave away a small library. It hurt
Twenty-seven boxes later, a Scarborough native reflects on what was both ‘a depressing process’ and ‘a comforting review of our adult lives.’
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The declining fortunes of a founding family of Maine unspool with a light touch
In Jason Brown’s latest collection of linked stories, ‘A Faithful But Melancholy Account of Several Barbarities Lately Committed,’ everybody has plans for the family’s decaying property.
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Charles Yu’s ‘Interior Chinatown’ brilliantly skewers Hollywood typecasting
Written in the form of a screenplay, the novel stars Generic Asian Man, who is stuck playing Background Oriental Male.
