Lifting Up Beautiful Books for Children

As a children’s librarian at the Wellesley Free Library, Eva Thaler-Sroussi’s life’s work is devoted to children, books, and community. As one of just 15 members of the 2021 John Newbery Award Selection Committee, she had the incredible privilege—and challenge—of...

Bohemia the Beautiful

It was the night of May 31, 2017, and silence at last had descended on the historic shingle-sided house on Curve Street, just blocks from the Wellesley College campus. Two weeks before, Katie Swenson witnessed the sudden death of the man she was to have married in...