Author: MassCommons

If Burnt Shadows were nothing more than a big, bold, sprawling novel crossing generations and continents from the dropping of the atomic bomb on Nagasaki on Aug. 9, 1945 to the wrenching Partition of India and Pakistan on Aug....

Part travelogue, part history, part environmental and cultural cri de coeur, Alice Albinia’s Empires Of The Indus: The Story Of A River is an audacious book, recounting her travels on and near the Indus River, from its...

Hisham Matar’s writing is like finely spun silk: so fragile that it’s breathtaking to follow his words as they connect one to the next, laying bare the vulnerabilities of the human heart; so powerful that its tensile...

They’re burying Swisher today. After a long and remarkable life, John “Swisher” Mitchell died last week at the age of 91 in his hometown of Waterville, ME. Before his decades-long stint as the yin to legendary...

It was easily the strangest and most appealing labor-management dispute of the year. In the summer of 2014, hundreds of Market Basket employees went on strike, thousands walked daily picket lines, and millions of customers...