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The Monmouth Community Players, along with Marquis season sponsor, Great Falls Regional Federal Credit Union, and season sponsors Auburn Savings Bank, Winthrop Area Federal Credit Union, and LWPE Law Offices, invite you to join them for their performance of Qui Nguyen’s “She Kills Monsters.” Co-directing this adventure are Mary Melquist and Scotty Venable. Their team […]

WBUR arts and culture fellow Lauren Williams recommends books that deal with extreme weather and drought.

Review: Alexandra Kleeman chills with an original, acerbic novel about a near-future apocalypse

This fantastically entertaining, dystopian eco-fiction-slash-satire on capitalism isnt a million miles from Kleemans Pynchon-esque debut, which involved ultra-sinister baked goods.

Jamie Ducharme (Holt) When Ducharme’s 2019 Time article on Juul came out, it was pretty tough to walk around New York without seeing the vape device. I was excited when I found out that article was to grow into a book, and the story Ducharme offers is a bizarre, somewhat frightening page-turner (and is set to become a docuseries, to boot). —Carliann Rittman, reviews editor The Atmospherians (Atria) A woman named Sasha Marcus is harassed and canceled by men’s rights activists aft...