Director Eli Roth’s newest film is an example of a genre that is a decade past its prime. Like its fellow children’s adventure novel adaptations The Chronicles of Narnia, The Golden Compass, and Bridge to Terabithia, The House with a Clock in Its Walls is a film that will easily win over children, but requires…
Author: Noemi Arellano-Summer
It takes “A Thousand Perfect Notes” to finally achieve happiness
C. G. Drews’ heartbreaking debut novel begins with this line: “What he wants most in the world is to cut off his own hands.” What follows is a well-written, depressingly accurate look at domestic abuse, and how to leave these relationships with courage. Beck Keverich is a high school student who spends his time playing…
Red Sox and Racism: A Panel
CAMBRIDGE, MA, FRIDAY—A Boston Red Sox executive responded positively to the unanimous vote yesterday to restore Yawkey Way to its original name of Jersey Street during a panel today at the Knafel Center, saying that “[Tom] Yawkey was a symbol that Fenway wasn’t always inclusive,” due to his alleged racism. Sam Kennedy, president and CEO…
Curious George Edits a Children’s Book
Bethany Vinhateiro twirls her pen around her fingers and sits facing me, focused. Her rose-colored pumps peek out from under the table. We sit at a small table in the atrium of 125 High Street in Boston, Mass., otherwise known as the headquarters for the publishing house Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, founded in 1832. The building…