Two years past the end of ‘Pride and Prejudice,’ the Bennet family are gathering for the holidays, and Mary, the awkward, bookish middle sister, is about to take center stage for the first time in her life.
Read articleThree days to chase the end of summer – #berkshireweekend
A long weekend of quiet days … what should we do? I may explore the Taconics, or the book festivals, or spiderwebs of art at PS21 and Hancock Shaker Village.
Read articleABCD — glimpsing the wires of broken school systems
What are the ethics of cheating in school? Harder: what about the ethics of cheating for the sake of a school which is being threatened by closure?
Read articleSculpture surfaces in Edith Wharton’s garden
The sea serpent in the garden is unmistakeable — rippling vintage translucent blue. I wonder what Edith Wharton would have said to a creature as long and sleek as a sailing canoe.
Read articleYou can’t stop the beat — #Berkshireweekend
High point in the last week? We’ve had so many as summer hits the Berkshires, even in these chaotic days. Scarlet, my first summer intern, has been getting me out to explore …
Read articleRachel E. Gross maps the universe of women’s bodies
‘There are parts of your own body less known than the bottom of the ocean or the surface of mars’ — if you’re a woman ...
Read articleMen on the Amistad speak out in Kevin Young’s ‘Ardency’
Fifty-three people of the Mendi from Sierra Leone captured a slave ship. Each one of them had been kidnapped from a rice field or a house where he slept beside his wife.
Read articleIzhar Patkin honors poet Agha Shahid Ali in light (throwback)
On a spring night, Izhar Patkin’s ‘Veil Suite’ fills the long gallery with rooms of translucent paintings, illuminating Agha Shahid Ali’s poetry.
Read articleWhat would ee cummings hear out here today?
People are sharing stories in a way I haven’t felt in the Northern Berkshires in a long time — not since Inkberry held writing workshops and readings in a storefront in North Adams …
Read articleCharles Coe brings poetry to Close Encounters (flashback)
Cambridge poet Charles Coe can write with the crowd-surging energy of hot summer nights, soul and sweat … and with the warmth of holding hands.
Read article