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Introducing BA Santamaria[1] “Sometimes depicted as a man totally dedicated to principle, even perhaps despite consequences, he emerges…rather as an agile political pragmatist reformulating theory to suit the purpose at hand… “[Santamaria’s] driving will is the explanatory key which allows us to see our intrepid anti-communist crusader not so much as a grand conspirator, but as a tragic figure in the classic sense, whose own indomitable will and imagination betrayed him, seducing him into a political adventure which was bound to fail.” – Fr Bruce Duncan[2] Bartholomew Augustine ...

January 11, 2021 By Liz Fields Laura Ingalls Wilder may have poured out her life story into the pages of her “Little House” books, but she was a woman who kept secrets. One of the biggest was her working partnership with daughter Rose Wilder Lane, which for whatever reason, the women chose to keep hidden from the world. The collaboration was only confirmed years later by historians combing through a trove of letters between the two. The correspondence not only revealed the extent of Lane’s hand in editing and structuring her mother’s writing, but also their shared political views. Tho...

  Over the course of a nearly sixty-year career, Norman Mailer wrote more than 30 novels, essay collections, and nonfiction books. Yet nowhere was he more prolific or more exposed than in his letters. All told, Mailer crafted more than 45,000 pieces of correspondence (approximately 20 million words), many of them deeply personal, keeping a copy of almost every one. Now the best of these are published most for the first time in one remarkable volume that spans seven decades and, it seems, several lifetimes. Together they form a stunning autobiographical portrait of one of the most original, ...

HomeOpinionBritish monk committed suicide 55 years ago, suffered from Satyriasis British monk committed suicide 55 years ago, suffered from Satyriasis 21 December 2020 03:34 am - 1     Reading Ravi Nagahawatte’s well crafted description [December 17] titled, “Was Ven. Jinawamsa ready for lessons on impermanence?”, prompted me to recollect memories of Ven. Nanavira of Bundala, Hambantota, who committed suicide in 1965. What is Satyriasis? Medical dictionaries define Satyriasis as a most acute, disgusting and indecent disease characterized by an irrepressible state of continuous pa...

7 local authors on unwrapping the perfect books By Kate Tuttle Globe Correspondent,Updated December 17, 2020, 2:55 p.m. Email to a Friend DAVID WILSON FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE (Custom credit) Maybe you know someone who needs just the right thing to read over the holidays. Maybe you want to mark a special occasion with a memorable keepsake. At times like these, there is nothing quite like a book. This week we asked authors from around the region to reflect on times when the perfect books came into their lives as gifts. It was my first holiday season as a grown-up away from home. By myself in my ap...