Higher Achievement
Sampan talks with ‘Pip’ Lewis, the architect behind the award-winning Josiah Quincy Upper School
Adam Smith
Jan 9
Book Review: 'Emperor of Gladness' Is Worth the Heartbreak and Pain
There’s something profoundly beautiful about a carefully constructed evocation of failure, despair, togetherness, and survival. When it’s unveiled sensitively, as it’s done so brilliantly in Ocean Vuong’s second novel The Emperor of Gladness, we are assured that the rough ride from the opening pages to the heartbreaking finale is going to be worth our trouble.
'Disgusted' by Inequity: Sabrina Salvati on Her New Documentary, 'Removed'
In her new documentary, “Removed: Black Erasure in Boston,” local filmmaker and podcaster Sabrina Salvati — better known as Sabby Sabs — takes viewers through the displacement of Blacks in the city.
Adam Smith
Dec 19, 2025
Review: ‘Fun Home’ Opens Window into Queer Family Secrets, Slippery Memories
Fun Home is a beautiful queer memoir-musical about investigating one’s past and wrestling with the maddening slipperiness of memory. Based on Alison Bechdel’s award-winning graphic memoir, the story follows Alison’s childhood, coming of age, and coming out story as a butch lesbian, as well as her attempts to understand her closeted gay father.
Virginia Sun
Dec 19, 2025