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Lauren Michele Jackson on Percival Everett’s novel “James,” written from the perspective of Jim, who escapes enslavement in “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.”

Sean Kramer, Andrew W. Mellon postdoctoral curatorial fellow, will present a gallery conversation on the exhibition “The Book of Two Hemispheres: Uncle Tom’s Cabin in the United States and Europe,” at 12 p.m. on Wednesday, March 27, at Bowdoin College Museum of Art on the campus of Bowdoin College in Brunswick. Kramer will be joined […]

I am not a movie guy, but this weekend I saw a movie so spectacular, so breathtaking that I feel compelled to attempt a review. The movie is Django Unchained, and I went to see it, I admit, because I just wrote a book that also features a black gunman. I was afraid that coincidence…

Republicans are set to consider the bill, proposed by state representative Ben Watson, who represents the district where Justice Clarence Thomas was born,…

From Ipswich to Haverhill, take a look back at how these pubs in Suffolk used to look.

From Ipswich to Haverhill, take a look back at how these pubs in Suffolk used to look.

As indie films go, these actors don’t stand out from the fray. Friend and Taylor fall in that category. Grier as the guide, Aisha Hinds (TV’s Underground) as the teacher and Nicole Byer as the leader of TASOMN waste their talent too. But Bogan shows a gift for modern, rom/com and gives one of the few performances that doesn’t seem forced. Her moments with Smith lift him up. His moments without her are in a dead zone. And if their comic, interracial, multi-cultural romance is the film’s ...

There is a biblical answer to all this and it's simple.

Three authors sounded warnings at a Tucson Festival of Books panel called Dangerous Information, one of the festival events where early-access tickets were most in demand.

On this day in 1913, Harriet Tubman passed away in Auburn. Her age was unknown, but it was somewhere between 90 and 95.