Jan Gardner

A new guide to MIT provides a map and a brief history of a series of sculptures and other art by well-known artists.

The Dorchester-born Impressionist painter Childe Hassam spent almost every summer on Appledore, an island about six miles off the coast of Maine and New Hampshire.

Pivoting off the popularity of Free Comic Book Day, the Cambridge Public Library is hosting a day-long celebration on May 7.

Boston Poet Laureate Danielle Legros Georges will explore the ways various poets wrestled with the idea of American identity.

“The Art of Leonard Weisgard,” coming to the the Eric Carle Museum, shows how the artist brought modernism to children’s book illustration.

Roxbury artist Ekua Holmes illustrated the new children’s book “Voice of Freedom” on the life of civil-rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer.

Bill Reynolds’s new book, “Hope: A School, a Team, a Dream,” is about the boys basketball team at inner-city Hope High School.

More than 200 years after the Bodoni typeface was created, it remains ubiquitous.

“Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family” is at times a harrowing tale, but ultimately it is a story of the triumph of love.

In “Barnyard Kids: A Family Guide for Raising Animals” (Quarry), author Dina Rudick has fun with rhymes while providing a serious overview of the time and resources needed to care for farm animals.

Intrigued by the islands offshore from her hilltop home in Camden, Maine, photographer Patrisha McLean started hopping on ferries to visit them.

It was 50 years ago this Saturday that Dylan’s electric performance was greeted with boos, disbelief, and a few cheers.

From a world of blood and guts, historical novelist Bernard Cornwell has fashioned a publishing empire.

Marian Parry’s “The Paris Book” (Un-Gyve Press) is an exquisitely drawn love story that dates back to her childhood. Parry, 91, who spent the first four years of her life in Paris, spoke French before she learned English. After her father finished his studies, the family moved to the States. …

At the time of his death at 97 in 1999, Paul Grabbe had been working on a memoir, which his daughter, Alexandra, has now edited and published, “Émigré: 95 Years in the Life of a Russian Count.” Threaded throughout Grabbe’s chronicle of his efforts to make a life for himself and his family is a se…

Four years after the ride that has defined Paul Revere for well over two centuries, he faced a bruising ordeal in the court of public opinion. It arose from the failure of the Penobscot Expedition to force the British from the coast of Maine. America’s entire naval fleet of 40 vessels was lost and a…

Lego artist Nathan Sawaya has made a career out of a childhood obsession, a story he tells in his illustrated memoir, “The Art of the Brick: A Life in Lego” (No Starch).

Eager to overturn its reputation as an exclusive institution, the Boston Athenaeum on Beacon Hill is flinging open its leather-bound doors on Nov. 2. During an open house from noon to 4 p.m., visitors are invited to explore all 12 stories of the historic building overlooking the Old Granary Burying…

The mercurial Robert Lowell and fellow poet Elizabeth Bishop had deep roots in Boston so “Dear Elizabeth,” based on 30 years of letters between the friends, is assured of a knowing audience. The play by Sarah Ruhl opens Friday at Lyric Stage.

The publication of “Harriet the Spy” in 1964 marked a new era in children’s literature. Through the cynical 11-year-old Harriet she created, author and illustrator Louise Fitzhugh brought contemporary realism to the world of children’s fiction. The 50th anniversary edition of the novel, published by…