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Rosa Rankin-Gee’s first novel, The Last Kings of Sark, explored the fraught emotional fallout of an idyllic summer in which three young people run wild together on the small Channel island. While two of the trio are quick to move on from the experience, Jude finds herself mired in the past, unable to let go. Keenly attuned once again to the heady sensations of those caught between adolescence and adulthood, Rankin-Gee’s second novel, Dreamland, is an equally enthralling coming-of-age story. But whereas in The Last Kings of Sark her characters retreated from the wider world, no su...

Theater without theater Seth Rudetsky’s concert-and-conversation series, YouTube videos of “Kinky Boots’' and “Hairspray,’' other online performances help to fill the void By Don Aucoin Globe Staff,Updated April 15, 2021, 3:17 p.m. Email to a Friend Screen shot of Seth Rudetsky in "The Seth Concert Series.""The Seth Concert Series" Last Sunday afternoon, after Broadway performer Ali Stroker tore through a rendition of “Be a Lion,” from “The Wiz,” host and piano accompanist Seth Rudetsky responded with a cry of “Brava!” At that moment, the...

LEFT COAST CRIME ANNOUNCES LEFTY AWARD WINNERS Oline Cogdill For years, I wanted to attend Left Coast Crime (LCC) having heard such good feedback about the conference. The various western locations also interested me. But the timing was never right as it always seemed I had previous commitments in the March/April time frame. But 2020 was different. Oh, so different as we were about to find out. For the first time, the timing worked for me and, as an extra bonus, one of my dearest and closet friends lived in San Diego. Tony and I had big plans—we would spend the day before the conference a...

What is your typical day like now? I usually wake around seven, answer emails and messages on social media, read the news (The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal, in addition to whatever else catches my eye, trying to get a balance of left and right editorializing). I usually watch a documentary from the PBS streaming channel, which is wonderful. I will often write a bit on one of the projects I’m working on. Most days I have Zoom meetings, interviews, podcasts, or rehearsals for various projects. Then I catch up on my Cameos, which is a great way to connect...

John Maytham's Book Reviews: 5 March 2021 5 March 2021 5:35 PM books 1. Thriller: All the Devils Are Here by Louise Penny, the latest in the Gamache series featuring Chief Inspector Armand Gamache in Montreal. 2. Fiction: _Klara and the Sun _by Kazuo Ishiguro, is the latest novel by the master of dystopian science fiction writing about Klara who is 'an artificial friend' set in a strange and veiled future as Ishiguro does so well. 'It is haunting and beautiful, says John. 3. Non-Fiction: We Are Bellingcat: An Intelligence Agency for the People by Eliot Higgins Take a l...