And I’m gonna’ die just a little more on each St. Valentine’s day . . .-Tom Waits, Blue Valentines. How I once dreaded Valentine’s Day, that cavity-inducing, flower-killing, quasi-holiday designed to ...

Gossip entertains, and it also sustains. In Jane Austen’s novel “Persuasion,” the sober heroine, Anne Elliot, pays a visit to ...

The late John Lynch worked only briefly for the Union Leader as a reporter (1954-55), but his poem endures and is reprinted ...