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WWB staff members share their favorite translated books of the year and the titles they're most looking forward to in 2024.

Nostalgia, talent and opportunity combine to bring you holiday cheer this weekend, when Magic Circle Players present “Coney Island Christmas.”

In December 1940, the Nazi government that occupied Poland created a Jewish ghetto in Warsaw, encircling about 3 kilometers and 450,000 people by a brick wall topped with barbed wire. Escapees were shot on sight. Those who didn’t die by execution, starvation or disease were deported to the death camps. An uprising of Jews with […]

From David Sedaris’s comic diaries to Maya Angelou’s poem Amazing Peace, count down to Christmas with our Advent calendar of festive reads

“People are just being extremely brave right now,” says Ari Brostoff.

In the distance, a newborn is wailing (a strand of hair is wrapped around his toe). A sparrow rises to the branches bearing beams for...

Alexandra Schwartz writes about a memoir of food, eating, and literature by the New York Times book critic Dwight Garner.

That informs much of the work and how it’s displayed in the Photographic Resource Center’s "For a Moment: Images from the Boston Photo League."

A former refugee from Nazi-occupied Austria, she became an openly lesbian voice in the women’s movement and a key leader in feminist studies.

  I cannot bear to look at the images from Israel and Gaza yet I cannot bear to look away. A dead child does not judge. Whether her last moment came