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STEAMERS
Cheers?
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, September 24, 2020
From Rebecca Johnson and Kevin Galligan
Playing With Space and Time To the editor: Marnie Crawford Samuelson’s interview with and portrait of my brother, Miah Nate Johnson, were sensitive and wonderful [“Laugh! Laugh Out Loud,” Sept. […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
A Lot of Life Left
Things go wrong sometimes. That’s always of interest to reporters and editors. We’re tuned to ask what happened and tell the story of how things came apart. It’s good to […]
QUEER ‘I’
Amid a Pandemic, Revisiting ‘Dancer From the Dance’
Andrew Holleran’s romantic rebels realize the cost of freedom
A million years ago, back in 2016, I sat on a panel at a literary conference in New Orleans. At the time, I was working on my second novel, and […]
VIGNETTE
Underwater
SKETCHBOOK
Hummingbird
OP-ED
Writers Against Trump
Aiming to swing the swing states in November
In the middle of August, a group of eight writers, prompted perhaps by chants of “12 more years!” at the Republican National Convention, began an online discussion about finding ways […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
A Meeting to Remember
Wellfleet was the first of the Outer Cape towns to conduct its long-delayed annual town meeting this past Saturday, and as Provincetown, Truro, and Eastham have also chosen, it was […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, September 17, 2020
From Daniel Holt, Anne Stott, John Stossel, and Mac Gatch
Native American Stereotypes To the editor: People in Truro who are unhappy with the Massachusetts seal [“State Flag and Seal Question Is on Wellfleet, Truro Warrants,” Sept. 10, page A8] […]
ON THE ROAD
Wild Turkeys
Wild Turkeys by Mary DeAngelis
VIGNETTE
Heading South
Heading South by Daniel Dejean
Dear Thomas Jefferson
Dear Thomas Jefferson by Linda Dujack
THE NEW OLD CAPE COD
You’re Sure to Fall in Love
Plan are underway to build a machine gun range at a Cape Cod base used for training by the Massachusetts Army National Guard. The proposal for Camp Edwards at Joint […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
The Globe Gets It Wrong
The Boston Globe published a disturbing piece this week about the experiences of urbanites going on vacation in rural New England this summer. It was titled “Dirty looks, threats, and […]
