“Some people think we all disappeared,” says Linda Coombs, a member of the Wampanoag Tribe of Aquinnah who for nearly 50 years has been a historian and museum curator specializing […]
HOME GROWN
An Autumn Pilaf Stars the Eastham Turnip
Wild rice and mushrooms are the perfect partners for a humble root
Even though they’re stars among Outer Cape roots, turnips have a reputation for humility. They get along nicely with other earthy vegetables, including carrots, potatoes, beets, and onions. For the […]
BOOKS
‘Our Strangers’ Offers Big Provocations in Bite-Size Stories
Lydia Davis finds wit in the senselessness of 21st-century life
In the story “Caramel Drizzle,” Lydia Davis begins with a simple but disorienting question, rendered in quotation marks and without attribution: “Caramel syrup or caramel drizzle?” How are those choices, […]
PROVINCETOWN BOOK FESTIVAL
A Maiden Voyage for an ‘Aging Pervert’
Janet W. Hardy’s radical queer savvy comes to Provincetown
By a strange twist of fate, the Provincetown Book Festival, hosted by the public library and running Sept. 29 to Oct. 1 this year, always seems to happen the same […]
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS FEST
A Mad Pilgrimage of the Weird
Philadelphia’s Die-Cast Ensemble takes on a less-known Williams legacy
The Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival is no stranger to the strange, but this year is something else. At the 18th annual festival this week, Williams’s lifelong love of science […]
