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Maeve with her beloved labrador, Bluebell, in East Hampton, New York in 1962. By Elizabeth Toomey, Contributor In her new biography of Maeve Brennan, Angela Bourke includes two photographs taken around 1948. In one, Brennan, a delicate-looking young woman dressed in black, is sitting in front of the fire looking over her shoulder, a cigarette in her left hand. With her hair fixed tightly in a bun and her lips pursed, she looks like a fashion model. In another photo from the same shoot, Maeve is standing by the fire, one hand on the mantelpiece, the other still holdin...

A COTTAGE stands near Welshpool's St Mary's Church with a remarkable tale. It was given to a servant who had helped the Powis family in their hour of need during a time of great religious upheaval in Britain in the late 17th century. The story of Winifred Maxwell and her daring plan to free her husband from the Tower of London is one which deserves to be remembered. The daughter of William Herbert, 1st Marquess of Powis, had lost everything when her father and his cousin, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury, were falsely accused by Titus Oates in the Popish Plot of conspirin...

Karla Cornejo Villavicencio decided to write The Undocumented Americans the day after the 2016 presidential election, though her first piece on immigration was published when she was a Harvard senior (byline: Anonymous). Anonymous no more, she has since written for the New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New Republic, and ELLE.com, among others, and her National Book Award-shortlisted nonfiction book came out in paperback today. The Ecuador-born Villavicencio once wrote about music for a jazz publication and indie rock blogs (she dreamed of fronting a rock band as a kid, but didn’t have acces...

A little-known bit of history. Here's What You Need to Remember: By early 1945, the U.S. military had ample evidence that an amphibious invasion of the Japanese home islands would prove exceptionally bloody and destructive. On April 10, 1945 a Soviet freighter slipped up to a quay at a frozen military base on a remote tip of Alaska aptly named Cold Bay. Inside her were over 500 sailors of the Soviet Navy. The Soviets had arrived to train on the first of 149 vessels the U.S. Navy was transferring to the Soviet Union. That fleet’s secret mission: to transport the Red Army for an invasion of ...

Central to Diary of a Film is the question: how do you reconcile life and art, and not settle for a life deferred while art is being made? Maestro’s film is widely expected to win the major prize at the festival, but he is as unsettled and subdued as the director/protagonist of Federico Fellini’s 8 ½. Wandering the streets before the screening, a chance encounter with a stranger, Cosima, appears to sweep away any threat of melancholia and gives him a sense of direction for his next project. As they walk through the city, Maestro learns, in dialogue-heavy scenes that call to min...