The region’s premier arts festival, CREATE, will return with a bang when festivities start in almost two weeks. Now in its fifth year, CREATE continues to be a celebration of community, creativity, ...

She also talks about how she moved from painting and collage to film. ART21 ... I like the way you’re so aware of people’s physical presences—Queequeg’s tattoos, Pip dancing, the way that Ahab moves.

Seattle satirist Maria Semple’s breakthrough novel is a flurry of contemporary, epistolary wit. Passive aggressive e-mail ...

A new book by the journalist Katherine Stewart finds a far-right movement seething in resentment, suspicious of reason and determined to dominate at all costs. By Jennifer Szalai Plenty of ...

Bookshop, a site that lets independent, bricks-and-mortar bookshops sell their books online, is launching an app that will allow the sales of e-books, too. By Alexandra Alter When Andy Hunter ...

No matter how many exciting new books are published each year ... and tells an unflinching tale of the orphan Pip trying to make something of himself against all odds in 19th century England.

Whether you’re looking to dive deeper into stories of age-gap romances, self-acceptance, or power, books can extend the emotional landscape “Babygirl” introduces. Boston.com reached out to ...

As an avid reader of art books, I’m especially excited to dive into these titles—they promise to inspire, challenge and deepen our understanding of art and its enduring impact. Whether you ...

Whether you're headed on a road trip or flying the friendly skies, we've curated the perfect collection of travel games for ...

Pip Williams, The Dictionary of Lost Words Why ... After reading Simon Winchester's Chesterman's book The Surgeon of Crowthorne, a non-fiction account of making of the Oxford English Dictionary ...

The author of the zeitgeisty non-fiction books “Why We Can’t Sleep” and “And Also a Poet” has written her first novel. A husband and wife with a fulfilling partnership and family life ...

The New Yorker’s articles editor spent a decade on this sly, anecdote-stuffed biography of Lorne Michaels, the producer who created “S.N.L.” Her witty and insightful portrait incorporates ...