Jonathan Glazer’s “Zone of Interest,” (“Sexy Beast” 2000) loosely based on Martin Amis’s novel of the same name, tells the true story of Rudolf Hoss, a Nazi commandant who ran the infamous Auschwitz concentration camp in World War II Poland while his wife and five children led a passive, comfortable life in a pristine new […]
Columns
News columns from staff writers and contributors to the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Thinking Things Through: Confronting the possibility of cancer
Even as Princess Kate recently announced she was undergoing cancer treatment, Liz Soares recounts her own ordeal testing for thyroid cancer.
The fall that changed plans for the next day and all the days and months
J.P. Devine writes about a fall that changes the next day and all the day and months to come.
Reporting Aside: Waterville highlights youth art
Children from 32 central Maine schools are exhibiting their works at the Paul J. Schupf Art Center and Greene Block + Studios through Sunday as part of Youth Art Month, Amy Calder writes.
Movie Review: ‘Love at First Sight’ has plenty of music about love
British actors, Phillips, Tom Taylor, Dexter Fletcher are sweet and charming as Oliver’s family ‚ it almost becomes another script for another movie, J.P. Devine writes.
Backyard Naturalist: Upside down March
Chaotic, patternless weather is new but it’s not normal, Dana Wilde writes.
On the Edge: What’s a typewriter?
J.P. Devine writes a love letter to what Tom Hanks called ‘brilliant combinations of art and engineering.’
Reporting Aside: Skowhegan area ‘can man’ scours roadside for extra cash
Josh Schleier, 34, of East Madison, started collecting returnable cans and bottles from the side of the road when he was 5 and has continued the hobby to this day.