Do you keep a list of books to read? Or are you the spontaneous type, preferring to land on a book while browsing a bookstore? I’d like to hear from you.
Do you keep a list of books to read? Or are you the spontaneous type, preferring to land on a book while browsing a bookstore? I’d like to hear from you.
I had been an irresponsible custodian – not reading more than one letter in 30 years, not telling my brother about them, and not liberating this piece of family history from my closet and passing it on.
Humans have been human for many millennia. Our gods, in many ways, resemble us.
With Women’s History Month approaching, I took the opportunity to do a little research on how the field of women’s history began.
It was fun to discover a convergence of two diametrically opposed characters that brought together two independent strands of my writing.
The year started with an exploding chestnut. So much for my plans for the first of January.
My end-of-the-year list has nothing new, stylish or currently popular.
While looking at the Sargent paintings now on view at the MFA, I entertained a dual fantasy.
This summer, I was on a mission to see how real places come across in fiction.
Here are five biographies of families who were shaped by, and who helped shape, regional history.