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5 Great Literary Mysteries Set in Coastal Massachusetts

5 Great Literary Mysteries Set in Coastal Massachusetts

Plus a Few More Where the Only Mystery is Who’s Sleeping With Whom

By Dwyer Murphy | June 24, 2025

Summers in New England: On Building a Community of Writers in Vermont

Summers in New England: On Building a Community of Writers in Vermont

Nicholas Delbanco Remembers the Living and Dead Who Passed Through the Bennington Writing Seminars

By Nicholas Delbanco | September 16, 2024

Stay Here with Me">Exposing Vulnerability: On Robert Olmstead's <emStay Here with Me">

Stay Here with Me">Exposing Vulnerability: On Robert Olmstead's Stay Here with Me

"It is contrary, it cuts against the grain, including the grain of Olmstead’s own work."

By Brock Clarke | June 20, 2024

New England Noir: A Brief, Idiosyncratic History of a Literary Region

New England Noir: A Brief, Idiosyncratic History of a Literary Region

Dwyer Murphy Recommends Ten Modern Classics and Wonders, More Importantly: What's Your Dunkin’ Order?

By Dwyer Murphy | July 11, 2023

Mundane Evil: An Overview of Witches and Puritans in 1630s New England

Mundane Evil: An Overview of Witches and Puritans in 1630s New England

Malcolm Gaskill Considers Prayers, Spells, and Power

By Malcolm Gaskill | November 1, 2022

Wind Blown Shipwreck">A Secret Memorial Under the Sea: The Hunt to Discover the <emWind Blown Shipwreck">

Wind Blown Shipwreck">A Secret Memorial Under the Sea: The Hunt to Discover the Wind Blown Shipwreck

Amanda M. Fairbanks on the Mystery of a Long-Lost Commercial Fishing Boat

By Amanda M. Fairbanks | May 28, 2021

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Elizabeth McCracken: Toward a Unified Theory of the Doughnut

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Bowlaway Wonders if One Can Eat a Hole">In Which the Author of Bowlaway Wonders if One Can Eat a Hole

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Autumn Has Always Been Poets' Season

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Nietzsche, Emerson, and the Eternal Return of the Falling Leaves

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Henry David Thoreau, Tree-Hugger

Henry David Thoreau, Tree-Hugger

On the Philosopher's Obsession with a New England Oak Forest

By Richard Higgins | July 12, 2017

Discovering the Power of Storytelling in a Tattered Old Pulp Paperback

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