“Whatever is in him,” the critic Joan Acocella wrote of Mark Morris in her 1993 biography, “out it comes. This goes for his dances — he creates with extraordinary ease […]
Books & Poetry
POETRY
Dogs of Truro
Selected by Katherine Hazzard
The first anonymous baying from those backlit hills petitions a single greeny-blue winter star. It silvers as I watch, tuning its sharpness. Deep January in the natural dark, and now […]
POETS
Joy Priest Finds Provincetown Rejuvenating
The FAWC fellow experiments with form and colleagues
Last spring, Joy Priest had some big decisions to make. The Kentucky native, who had recently completed her M.F.A. in poetry at the University of South Carolina, was accepted to […]
books
Joel Meyerowitz’s Provincetown Through a Local Lens
Photographs in search of a lost time
Eighty-one-year-old Joel Meyerowitz, éminence grise among Provincetown photographers, was in Manhattan in late October. The occasion was a narrated slide show and book signing hosted by Aperture, his publisher, […]
AT THE LIBRARY
Thanksgivings Every Day
Braiding Sweetgrass By Robin Wall Kimmerer Milkweed Editions: 2015 In Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants, author Robin Wall Kimmerer asks readers to “imagine raising […]
DEAR INDIE
A Bitter Halloween Candy Tax
Family conflict over a shrinking stash
Dear Indie, I put a lot of effort into my Halloween trick-or-treating and came home with a major haul of candy. Way more than my older sisters, who are now […]
AT THE LIBRARY
A Classic Dysfunctional Family Memoir
Tales of resilience as holidays loom
Educated Tara Westover New York: Random House, 2018 Family dynamics can range from quirky to full-blown dysfunctional even at the best of times, but holidays have a way of putting […]
BOOK REVIEW
The Return of Henry Rios in Carved in Bone
Michael Nava’s gay mystery looks back in time
After a two-decade absence, author Michael Nava’s award-winning Henry Rios mystery series returns with its eighth installment, Carved in Bone. (This volume fits chronologically between the first and second books […]
book review
‘Find Me’: The Return of Elio and Oliver
André Aciman writes a follow-up to 'Call Me by Your Name'
In the 2007 novel Call Me by Your Name, André Aciman created a beautiful and sensual love story about two young men — Elio, a 17-year-old American piano prodigy spending […]
