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Liquids: Rum
If you enjoy cocktails as much as I do, you probably agree with my credo that it’s always got to be happy hour somewhere in […]
Liquids: Apéritifs
When I was just learning to cook, I planned a dinner party with what I’ve come to realize are my typically manic high expectations. You […]
Liquids: Sicilian Wine
The hills and valleys of Sicily in spring were ablaze with incandescent yellow buttercups growing wild just about everywhere that grapevines were not. “Signore, signori, […]
Liquids: Riesling
It started out as a relaxed, civilized meal with five friends in the Soirée Room at UpStairs on the Square. Then the waiter gave us […]
Liquids: Whiskey
I once spent a cold, rainy night at a fancy British inn where I was attended by a brilliant Irish butler named Morris, whose wry […]
Liquids: Pink Champagne
If you haven’t made dinner plans for Valentine’s Day yet, take my advice: Don’t. Few days on the calendar stress out restaurateurs and diners more […]
Liquids: Dessert Wine
Ask me what’s a good meal. Go ahead. My answer: any meal with wine. What’s a great meal? One that pairs a different wine with […]
Style: Encore Weddings
Once and Again
School Days
Boston gumshoe Spenser returns in a crackling yarn about sexual blackmail and a murder at a Massachusetts prep school. A well-heeled society lady hires our […]
Wickett's Remedy
Goldberg follows up her debut, Bee Season, with this historical novel juxtaposing the Spanish influenza epidemic of 1918 against the rise and fall of a […]
The Last Days of Dogtown
In her third novel, the author of The Red Tent and Good Harbor again breaks old ground, this time on early-19th-century Cape Ann. The community […]
A Little Love Story
Jake Entwhistle's mother is losing her mind, his sister is on drugs in Reno, and his girlfriend died on a 9/11 airliner. Just as this […]
Judge Sewall's Apology
Our idea of a Boston Puritan is all black hats and scarlet letters, so this absorbing biography is a welcome correction. Samuel Sewall was one […]
Trophy House
All is well for children's illustrator Dannie Faber until a grotesque McMansion, complete with tower, is built next to her Truro bungalow. Then a mysterious […]
The Lady and the Panda
The first live giant panda seen in the West wasn't bagged by a strapping, mustachioed Great White Hunter, but by a New York socialite named […]