Magic shenanigans are the order of the day in this new fantasy novel set in an alternative-universe Cairo
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DR. STRANGER: JOE KEOHANE ON THE BENEFITS OF CONNECTING IN A SUSPICIOUS WORLD
“I thought maybe I could just talk to people for two years and report back about what happened, but then I started seeing all this research and it started to explain why I enjoyed having these interactions.”
INTERVIEW: AVIVA CHOMSKY AND CENTRAL AMERICA’S FORGOTTEN HISTORY
“If you want to know about the causes, you have to ask, What’s the cause of poverty, violence, and corruption? And that second question is what the Biden administration isn’t asking.”
EXCERPT: THE HISTORY OF TATTOOING IN BOSTON
Edward Liberty’s Boston location gave him fresh proximity to his maturing sons and influence upon them
WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT COLD WAR CULTURE
Louis Menand’s “The Free World” is a world found, and lost
AUTHOR INTERVIEW: HOW TO RESIST AMAZON AND WHY
Local businesses must tell their stories, build community, then explain: "Amazon puts all that at risk."
BOSTON DID IT FIRST: AN INTERVIEW, AN AUTHOR, AND 500 LOCAL INNOVATIONS
An interview, an author, and 500 local innovations
ONE AUTHOR’S BOSTON DIVE INTO AMERICA’S FIRST TRIAL
“From everything I’ve seen, it was the first … trial of the century.”
BOOK REVIEW: “IN DEFENSE OF SKA”
An incredibly diverse genre with anti-racist roots, historically panned by snobby critic dicks
POET AND UMASS AMHERST PROF MARTÍN ESPADA: “THIS BOOK IS … MASSACHUSETTS. IT’S WHO I AM.”
“I think it was important, a way of restoring their humanity, to give them back their names.”