WEN takes a look at the broader picture with lifestyle, book reviews, and travel features.
Book Short The Woman They Could Not Silence Review by Stephanie Miller One summer morning in 1860, Elizabeth Packard, a housewife and mother of six, is committed to an insane asylum by... Read more
The Portland Gothic House & Cuba Connection Part II: Horatio Fox & the Spanish Colony of Cuba By Marta Morse Portland has an illustrious past. Before the American Revolution, ships w... Read more
Book Short ‘The Island of Missing Trees’by Elif Shafak Review by Stephanie Miller Do the trees, flora, and insects of Cyprus have anything to teach citizens torn apart by civil w... Read more
Book Short Klara and the Sunby Kazuo Ishiguro Review by Stephanie Miller In late May, NVIDIA, a maker of chips used in artificial intelligence (AI) technology, was valued at nearly one trill... Read more
The Portland Gothic House & Cuba Connection Part IPortland Gothic House Saved from Urban Renewal By Marta Morse After purchasing the Portland Gothic House at 387 Spring Street in 1986, I... Read more
La Vida LocalIrregular Notes on West End Life What’s That Buzz? By Rosanne Graef An undeniable urge to dig always strikes me about mid-April. It’s getting to the 50°s by day and overnight ho... Read more
Book Short How to live freely in a confusing world Review by Stephanie Miller Neighbors play a big role in “Freedom,” a novel by best-selling author Jonathan Franzen. Some are ki... Read more
Book Short In the Shadow of the Banyan Review by Stephanie Miller A child’s world is shattered by civil war in Cambodia. One by one the people she loves are blown up, gone missing, stolen aw... Read more
La Vida LocalIrregular Notes on West End LifeBy Rosanne Graef Late Winter in Bits & Pieces February often brings a kind of restlessness as the days grow noticeably longer. And there... Read more
Book Short A Fortnight in SeptemberBy R.C. Sherriff Review by Stephanie Miller Nothing really happens in this novel, “The Fortnight in September” by R.C. Sherriff. A family takes... Read more
