Book Bag: ‘Digger,’ a new memoir, plus ‘Do Jellyfish Like Peanut Butter?’ and other questions  

Valley writers win honors in this year’s Massachusetts Book Award competition

Dreams, girlhood, beauty, and nature: The vivid art of Latvian painter Jana Brike

‘A good run’: Terry Jenoure, longtime director of the Augusta Savage Gallery, retires

Disability in America: Northampton filmmaker probes environmental and public health factors 

What do you do when modern life makes you sick? Amherst writer’s new book examines the problem of environmental illness

Voting, then and now: Photo exhibit at Northampton’s A.P.E. Gallery examines the barriers to voting in 1965 and 2020

The Bard: coming to a computer screen near you: Chester Theatre Company stages a virtual “King Lear”

Staying connected in the age of COVID-19: UMass Fine Arts Center offers online music, comedy, dance and more this fall

‘We are glorious’: Documentary celebrates young people in Whole Children’s performing arts program

‘Barricades’ and ‘Entering the Day’: a little-known chapter of West Point history, and a new collection of poems

Past informs the present: David Ruggles Center designs curriculum on landmark anti-slavery community