WEN takes a look at the broader picture with lifestyle, book reviews, and travel features.
Book Short ‘Harlem Shuffle’by Colson Whitehead Review by Stephanie Miller Staying straight when everyone around you is getting rich by being crooked is a storyline as old as huma... Read more
City News Brief Portland Parks Offers New Tai Chi for Arthritis The City of Portland Parks, Recreation and Facilities will offer people of all ages a new way to stay fit. Portland is one of... Read more
Book Short Trustby Hernan Diaz Review by Stephanie Miller There are four sections to “Trust,” a novel by Pulitzer Prize winning author Hernan Diaz. The first is a novel itself, a... Read more
The Portland Gothic House & Cuba Connection Part III: 19th Century Life in The Portland Gothic House By Marta Morse Current resident, Marta Morse, glimpses 19th Century life at The Portl... Read more
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
