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PublishedMarch 5, 2020
OFF RADAR: Books from Farmington country
'Dwellers in the House of the Lord' and 'The Vigilance of Stars'
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PublishedFebruary 27, 2020
BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘Hermit’ and ‘Garden Cemeteries of New England’
A terrific story about the decisions people make to protect themselves and others, and a short history of garden cemeteries from the mid-1800s
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PublishedFebruary 20, 2020
OFF RADAR: ‘Blue: poems’
Dave Morrison’s poems are direct and clever in expression, vivid in image, explicit in emotion, and overflowing with perceptive awe for the everyday world and his own bewildering emotions.
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PublishedFebruary 13, 2020
BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘Home Now’ and ‘Farnswell’
A provocative and insightful commentary on the influx of African Muslim refugees and asylum-seekers settling in Lewiston, and a novel with a clever blend of subtle mystery, poignant innocence and the satisfying realization that good things really do happen to good people
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PublishedFebruary 9, 2020
Governor lends her voice to new televised poetry series
Maine Poet Laureate Stuart Kestenbaum builds on the success of the 'Poems from Here' radio program and expands it into a TV series, featuring Mainers – including Gov. Janet Mills – speaking poems.
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PublishedFebruary 6, 2020
OFF RADAR: ‘Life on Mars’ by Robert Klose
“Life on Mars” has some strong similarities to books like Sinclair Lewis’s “It Can’t Happen Here” and Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale” — all too plausible imaginations of what, exactly, the takeover of government by religious zealots could look like. But one difference is that Klose’s novel is straight-on satire.
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PublishedJanuary 23, 2020
BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘A Child Shall Lead Them’ and ‘Coastal Maine in Words and Art’
The seventh Joe Burgess mystery and 28 stories from finalists in the Solon Center for Research and Publishing writing contest
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PublishedJanuary 16, 2020
OFF RADAR: ‘Olive Again’
A clean, well-lighted book by Elizabeth Strout
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PublishedJanuary 9, 2020
BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘Thread and Buried’ and ‘In Maine: Essays on Life’s Seasons’
The ninth volume in the "Mainely Needlepoint Mystery series, and wonderful essays on a love affair with Maine
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PublishedJanuary 2, 2020
OFF RADAR: “Curious Toys”
A good, weird murder mystery by Elizabeth Hand, set in 1915 at the Riverview Amusement Park in Chicago
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