As the parent of a child who turns 12 years old this Saturday, and as the parent in our household who will be home all day with this child throughout the summer because I work nights, and as the pa…

There’s this game I play on my tablet when I can’t concentrate on anything, or when reading a book puts me to sleep, or when it’s late at night and I’m unable to sleep, or w…

It took me less than a minute of distracted scrolling this week to see the NYT created/curated a list of the 30 Greatest American Living Songwriters or some such shit. I’m not going to read t…

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You could almost feel for Anna, the tedious nitwit described in the opening paragraphs of “The Young Women Leaving the New Right,” a New York magazine feature by the writer Sam Adler-Bell. Tormented b...

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As a person who’s had a grand total of zero novels published in my writing career (feel free to put career in quotation marks there, some people would tell you that writing should be in quote…

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

Many years ago back before any of us were born I used to write poetry and I used to be pretty damn good at it. I lost interest in that world–first in the profession, then in the genre–a…

Directed by Halina Dyrschka • 2019 • Germany Hilma af Klint was an abstract artist before the term existed, a visionary, trailblazing figure who, inspired by spiritualism, modern science, and the ri...

I know that nobody gives a single solitary shit anymore about descriptions, no matter how poetic, of the various flora and fauna, the animals and archipelagos, that happen to exist in the places wh…

Immigrant neighborhoods in Massachusetts are feeling the strain of recent ICE actions, which have intensified in recent months. The Globe spent seven days in local communities to tell their stories.

There comes a time in every young person’s life when their parents’ friends have to buy them a high school graduation present. And so they go to Barnes & Noble, a store that sells t…

Before we tackle the subject directly, I have to admit that I started writing/procrastinating this post by typing its title into a search engine in the hope of finding a relevant photo I could use …

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So my grandfather-in-law dies a couple of weeks ago and the kid and the spouse drive down to Tennessee to pay their respects—and to pay mine since I’m not able to get the time off from work. That m…

I was working one night this past January, a slow, slushy winter evening which meant I had way too much time to fill before the end of my shift. So I did what most of us do when we’re bored&#…

The other day my partner and co-conspirator suggested I compile all the query letters I’ve sent to literary agents and try to make a book out of them. My co-conspirator is funny like that. Or…

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The Alarm were, by any sort of pseudo-objective critical standard, a goofy rock band from the 80s who spent their first two albums blindly chasing after the Clash, spent their next two albums blind…