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Good talk about male androgyny in rock music, after my 19-year-old heard his first Rolling Stones song. He already knew about Prince and Bowie. Arts education begins at home!

This is simple and powerful advice. Sad that our biggest outlets tend not to take it.

And also, as we all continue to talk about the source material, the translations, the movie versions, the movie reviews, the book reviews -- this is the way culture works! This is the fun stuff! And I feel so lucky to be a part of the maelstrom.

This is so cute!

I talked with @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social for the @bostonglobe.com. I don't think she loves all the attention online, but she's definitely tough enough to handle it all. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/31/a...

Emily Wilson is in the spotlight for her scathing critique of Nolan’s ‘Odyssey,’ but she’s always been opinionated - The Boston GlobeWilson’s bold, often negative review of Christopher Nolan’s film “The Odyssey,” which the director had said was largely based upon her translation, appeared this week in the London Review of Books. Th...www.bostonglobe.com

Waymos No Match For Massholes

Just real confidence

Do you have a superpower you wish you didn't have? Mine is that I always know what the twist is going to be like five minutes into the movie, especially true crime docs.

This is just plain evil.

I really liked talking with @aaronmahnke.com of the podcast LORE about his new book, EXHUMED, a fascinating look at some very strange folk ideas about health and death and vampires. He's at the Wilbur Theatre next week, in the @bostonglobe.com in print on Sunday. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/30/a...

If you’ve never heard of the New England Vampire Panic, strap in! - The Boston GlobeMercy Brown, of Essex, R.I., died at 19 from tuberculosis. After her death her father and other local men exhumed her body, removed and burned her heart and liver, feeding the ashes to her brother Edw...www.bostonglobe.com

Critic Marion Winik loved THE AMATEUR, the smart new page-turner by @chrisbohjalian.bsky.social. Read her review now online or in the Sunday print edition of the @bostonglobe.com www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/28/a...

A fatal golfing accident, predatory men, and the girl at the center - The Boston GlobeChris Bohjalian has set his previous books in locales ranging from the Northeast Kingdom to Las Vegas, from Paris and Dubai to the Serengeti. This time, it’s “a tony suburb of New York City in 1978,” ...www.bostonglobe.com

I was proud to assign and edit this brilliant review, by Walton Muyumba, of TRIAGE, the new and uncategorizable book by Claudia Rankine. In print in the Sunday @bostonglobe.com www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/29/a...

‘Triage’ is another brilliant genre-bending narrative from Claudia Rankine - The Boston GlobeIn the 1980s, when the central characters in Claudia Rankine’s hybrid narrative, “Triage,” meet in Western Massachusetts as liberal arts undergraduates, they fall into immediate sisterhood.www.bostonglobe.com

For the Sunday edition of the @bostonglobe.com I wrote about the least well know of E.B. White's novels for children, "The Trumpet of the Swan." It's a love letter to music, solitude, & nature. And Sam Beaver is White's most autobiographical character. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/30/a...

E. B. White’s ‘Trumpet of the Swan’ deserves to be adored alongside ‘Stuart Little’ and ‘Charlotte’s Web’ - The Boston GlobeWhite’s trio of novels for children yielded two of the 20th century’s most beloved books: 1945’s “Stuart Little” and “Charlotte’s Web,” which was published in 1953.www.bostonglobe.com

The disrespect and ignorance are almost laughable — though ultimately deadly serious.

I wrote about my love for E. B. White's Trumpet of the Swan, less famed than his other two novels for children, but special to me. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/30/a...

E. B. White’s ‘Trumpet of the Swan’ deserves to be adored alongside ‘Stuart Little’ and ‘Charlotte’s Web’ - The Boston GlobeWhite’s trio of novels for children yielded two of the century’s most beloved books: 1945’s “Stuart Little” and “Charlotte’s Web,” which was published in 1953. But “The Trumpet of the Swan,” which cam...www.bostonglobe.com

Even the bombastic music gave up in despair before the end of the video.

Abu Ghraib all over again. Please let us not participate in dehumanizing our fellow human beings.

Raise a child who can cook, that's all I'm saying. I'm wrangling an interview into an article and the delicious smells coming from the kitchen are keeping me going.