COMMENTSalem, Massachusetts is a long way from the honeyed climes of Montecito and a world away from the lights lime or ...

Like Cornell, Hester Prynne of Hawthorne’s “The Scarlet Letter” (1850) suffered as the result of a sexual entanglement with a minister. At its best, “The Sinners All Bow” presents a ...

In the world of true crime, Fall River, Mass. is known for Lizzie Borden, but another murder 60 years earlier captivated New ...

Boudreau has since written about Cornell's death, including an academic paper called "'The Scarlet Letter' and ... both Hawthorne's main character Hester Prynne and factory worker Sarah Cornell ...

The case at the Lower Middle School ended up at the Department of Education because a parent contested the Administrative Law judge's finding because it was a "scarlet letter" that would remain on his ...

Virginia was first state to enact a law mandating a program that provides physicians with 24/7 confidential mental health ...

In nonfiction, we recommend an elegy for Black Twitter and a true-crime history of the 19th-century murder trial that may have inspired “The Scarlet Letter.” Happy reading. — Gregory Cowles ...