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Newbury Street’s Trident Booksellers & Café Celebrates 40 Years

As the digital age continues to transform industries, the humble bookstore has proven its resilience. Case in point: Trident Booksellers & Cafe, the beloved Newbury […]

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Cambridge’s Porter Square Books Plots Big Move

Good news, bookworms. Porter Square Books is upgrading its old digs for a fresh new space down the street. The beloved indie bookstore and Best […]

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“It Ends with Us” Movie: The Story Behind Lily Bloom’s ‘Best of Boston’ Award

The cinematic adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s BookTok smash It Ends with Us just opened in theaters—starring Blake Lively, featuring a Taylor Swift song and including […]

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Colleen Hoover’s “It Ends With Us” Has Boston All Wrong

This article was originally published on December 9, 2021. We are recirculating it now due to the film release of It Ends With Us, which […]

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Bestselling Author Sebastian Junger on PTSD, Mortality, and His Near-Death Experience in Truro

You might assume the scariest moment of Belmont native Sebastian Junger’s life happened while he was a war correspondent in Bosnia or Afghanistan. You’d be […]

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Three Art and Design Books for Your Spring 2024 Reading List

The Landscape of Home: In the Country, By the Sea, In the City, by Edmund Hollander, foreword by Bunny Williams, with Judith Nasatir If you […]

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Three Art and Design Books for Your Winter Reading List

Yves Saint Laurent: Gold, by Elsa Janssen and Yvane Jacob Clothing. Jewelry. Accessories. Style icon Yves Saint Laurent has provided the fashion industry with a […]

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Co-Authors Tonya and Ben Mezrich Talk Children’s Books, UFOs, and Ellen Pompeo

When she’s not writing about the city’s coolest boutiques and tastemakers for this magazine, Boston style editor Tonya Mezrich is working with her husband, New York […]

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Four Art and Design Books for Your Summer 2023 Reading List

Entertaining by the Sea: A Summer Place, by Tricia Foley Just in time for the warmer temps is this entertaining guide to help you make […]

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The Interview: Crime-Fiction Writer Dennis Lehane

You can take the boy out of Dorchester, but you can’t take Dorchester out of the boy. Author Dennis Lehane first came to our attention […]

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Four Art and Design Books for Your Spring 2023 Reading List

Our America, by Ken Burns For more than 40 years, award-winning filmmaker Ken Burns has told a compelling array of stories about America through a […]

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The Interview: Novelist Hank Phillippi Ryan

Hank Phillippi Ryan has a confession to make: She’s tried to get away with murder 14 times so far. Mind you, she’s not talking literally: […]

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Boston Magazine Alumni Publish a New Book

In The Lemon–a celebrated new novel written by Massachusetts natives and former Boston magazine writers Kevin Alexander and Joe Keohane, with editor Alessandra Lusardi—a beloved […]

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Four Art and Design Books for Your Winter Reading List

The Great American Road Trip: Roam the Roads from Coast to Coast, Edited by Aether & Laura Austin Synonymous with adventure, climbing into a car […]