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Interview: Leanne Shapton

Object lessons
There are many end-of-relationship rituals.

By: SHARON STEEL | March 24, 2009

Ulrich Boser takes on the Gardner heist
In the wee hours of March 18, 1990, two men posing as police officers gained entrance to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, tied up the two security guards, and stole 13 pieces of art.

By: JEFFREY GANTZ | March 18, 2009

Whodunit?

Art thief Myles Connor talks
Myles Connor: Mayflower descendant, Mensa member, master of disguise, black belt in karate, self-styled "President of Rock 'n' Roll." And probably the most notorious art thief in the history of the United States.

By: MIKE MILIARD | March 18, 2009

Mixed book bag

Reads to thaw out with
It looks like a good season run-up to beach reads, with new fiction from Denis Johnson and Aleksandar Hemon, biographies of Gabriel García Márquez and Cornelius Vanderbilt, and John Updike's final collection of poetry.

By: BARBARA HOFFERT | March 16, 2009

Review: The Kindly Ones

Inside the Reich
Those put off by the soft-pedaling of the SS in the movie adaptation of Bernhard Schlink's The Reader might be wary of Jonathan Littell's memoir of fictional war criminal Maximilien Aue.

By: PETER KEOUGH | March 11, 2009

Noir film

Jerry Berndt and Eugene Richards: The inescapable romance of decay
Fatalism and depression are consequences of life, not goals. Cheer up and don't let this dust-to-dust business slow you down.

By: CLIF GARBODEN | March 03, 2009

Review: In the Devil's Territory by Kyle Minor

Kyle Minor's book of secrets
In Kyle Minor's dark debut collection of stories, personal secrets always exact a terrible price.

By: NINA MACLAUGHLIN | February 25, 2009

Nazis, Manet, and romance

Telling Fiction from Fact
During World War II, Nazi plunderers focused their greedy eyes on Paris and began looting the city's artwork — operating according to Hitler's plan to open a massive, self-aggrandizing museum in Germany.

By: CAITLIN E. CURRAN | February 19, 2009

Interview: G. Xavier Robillard

Of politics, capes, and fame-whoring
There just aren't many career options for a washed-up superhero these days.

By: MARY PHILLIPS-SANDY | February 18, 2009

Interview: Eugene Mirman

Slow learner
Much like the stand-up that has made him an alt-comedy mainstay, Eugene Mirman's first book, The Will to Whatevs (Harper Perennial), is a freewheeling mix of bemused ironies and trenchantly silly non-sequiturs.

By: ROB TURBOVSKY | February 17, 2009

Slideshow: Street, studio art from Caleb Neelon

Artwork on many platforms
Artwork from Cambridge street artist Caleb Neelon.

By: CALEB NEELON | February 13, 2009

Review: Rebound!

The Celtics and the busing rift
According to Boston Herald writer Michael Connelly, the deep racial wounds opened up by the Boston busing crisis of the mid '70s first began to heal when whites and blacks came together to support the Boston Celtics' championship team of 1981.

By: KEN BROCINER | February 13, 2009

Interview: T. C. Boyle

On The Women and Frank Lloyd Wright
Among his many fictionalizations of the American past, novelist T.C. Boyle has remade such real-life characters as the inventor of cornflakes, John Harvey Kellogg ( The Road to Wellville , 1993), and sexual behaviorist Alfred Kinsey ( The Inner Circle , 2004).

By: CASSANDRA LANDRY | February 03, 2009