A local author tamps down his shame from the 1970s and makes a trek to meet one of his idols, writer Tom Robbins.

In Deborah Notaro Finck’s final days, the beloved content creator sent her daughter Katerina a text message. It read: “I love you more than you know, and I will always be with you. Just say my name ...

George Oppen’s “From a Photograph” turns a wintry snapshot into a moving meditation on parenthood and the passage of time.

When I turned to an LLM for a summary and could find no use for it, I came to recognize that I was interacting not with an intelligence, but a probability. Without an interesting human feature to ...

Relatives and total strangers alike made me feel I was part of Ireland’s history, even though I grew up in Dorchester.

Los Angeles born-and-raised author Keeonna Harris details her experience as a parent with an incarcerated partner in her ...

What’s it like teaching first, fifth and sixth graders all in one day? School librarian Jami Rhue shares her experience.

john a. powell explains why we distance ourselves from groups of people and how we can all find the connection that we crave.

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Dante’s Divine Comedy, a ‘biography’ of the Italian poet’s masterpiece by Joseph Luzzi, brims with facts but lacks any starry-eyed wonder ...

Booklovers have long debated whether politics belong in online book communities. Readers and authors, including Jodi Picoult, ...

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