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Fighting a hate with no boundaries: Jewish Federation of the Berkshires looking for support in its ‘Hate has no home here’ campaign

"We also know that hate never travels alone," Jewish Federation of the Berkshires Executive Director Dara Kaufman told The Berkshire Edge. "We’re in a community where if you stand up for one, you stand up for all."

Stuck-at-Home Handbook — Installment #5

Installment #5: If your kid won't sit still to read, podcasts may be the answer. Author Sheela Clary talks with internationally known children's podcast producers who live here in West Stockbridge. Would you share your own experiences? Please send them to Sheela.

Through the ancient art of book-binding, Great Barrington artist Suzi Banks Baum teaches Armenian women to express themselves

t the end of the day, this is what Baum is inching these women toward: to stand in their Armenian-ness, to look at their neighbor as a safe person, and to recognize that in this practice — as a fellow artisan in this community — they can ask one another for help and feel part of something together.

AMPLIFICATIONS: Influential books

When I was in seventh grade, I started reading all the books my mother told me not to read.

Poem: Dumb as a Rock

Allow me to suggest that you exhibit a collection of divots...

Books To Read and To Give: Staff picks from The Bookloft

As gift-giving time begins, The Bookloft in Great Barrington offers suggestions of Staff Picks.

ON BOOKS: In Aaron Thier’s ‘The World is a Narrow Bridge’ the fate of humanity hangs in the balance

Hannah Van Sickle interviews Great Barrington author Aaron Thier about his latest book, ‘The World is a Narrow Bridge.’ Thier will be reading from his book at The Bookstore in Lenox on Monday at 5:30 p.m.

AUDIO REVIEW: Authors reading their own works

Sometimes you just want to hear an author read his or her own audiobook.

AUDIO REVIEWS: Fiction — a thriller, biography, love story

Fiction dominates todays reviews with one thriller, one novel based on fact, and two easy-going tales from established authors.

Women’s Prison Project provides books to prisoners

In her letter to the editor, Susie Kaufman writes: “I was stunned to learn that New York State -- and no doubt other states -- are severely restricting access to books for incarcerated persons.”

Book Review: Two new books for young readers by local author Michelle Cuevas

Local Berkshires author Michelle Cuevas will sign new books for young readers at The Bookloft in Great Barrington Saturday, September 30.

BOOK REVIEW: An idiot’s guide to tyranny: Some thoughts about Timothy’s Snyder’s ‘On Tyranny’  

“Americans today are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism, or communism in the twentieth century. Our one advantage is that we might learn from their experience. Now is a good time to do so.” -- Timothy Snyder, from ‘On Tyranny’

Larkin About In America: Teen readers, hope for the future

At the Teen Book Fest, there are over 1,500 teenagers cheering and screaming as the authors are introduced.

BOOK REVIEW: ‘An Unlikely Hero’

"On a Monday morning on the thirtieth day of the inhospitable month of two-faced January, in 1933, Adolf Hitler came to power by the standard process of constitutional democracy." -- from “An Unlikely Hero”

Matt Tannenbaum’s Bookstore: 40 years serving writers and readers

The Bookstore has also been a place of comfort, in that special way good bookstores are, for people who want to step out of modern life’s constant buzzing.

BOOK REVIEW: A sagacious guide to the meaning of life

Dan Klein has written a serious philosophical treatise that employs judicious bits of humor to make serious points about life’s biggest questions.

The Bookloft, long-time refuge for readers and writers, is up for sale

It is bursting with titles and special editions and things you never even knew about. The cookbook section is a knockout. And the children and young adult section is enchanting.
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