News from the literary landscape of New England.

With the pandemic eliminating school field trips, Chamber Theatre pivoted to film, restaging four short pieces — “Annabel Lee,” “The Tell-Tale Heart,” “The Raven,” and an audio version of “The Bells” — in the appropriately moody Gloucester venue.

Federal authorities demanded any documents related to a parcel of land in Chinatown that has become a key part of a wide-ranging public corruption investigation.

Avenatti, who awaits sentencing for trying to extort Nike, made overtures as he considered representing the Osundairo brothers, an attorney for the ex-"Empire" actor tells Sneed.

Passion, the Passion or the Passions may refer to: Emotion Passion (emotion), a very strong feeling about a person or thing Passions (philosophy), emotional states as used in philosophical discussions Stoic passions, various forms of emotional suffering in StoicismSuffering of Jesus Passion of Jesus, the suffering of Jesus leading up to and during the crucifixion Passion (music), musical setting of the texts describing these events Passion Play, dramatic representation of these events Passion Sunday, the second Sunday before Easter Passion Conferences, Christian organizationPeople Pasion, ancient Greek slave and banker Passion Richardson (born 1975), American former sprint athleteBooks "The Passion" (Milton), 17th-century poem by John Milton The Passions an 18th-century poem by William Collins Passion, (in Italian, Fosca), 1869 novel by Iginio...

The Code of Hammurabi is a Babylonian legal text composed c. 1755–1750 BC. It is the longest, best-organised, and best-preserved legal text from the ancient Near East. It is written in the Old Babylonian dialect of Akkadian, purportedly by Hammurabi, sixth king of the First Dynasty of Babylon. The primary copy of the text is inscribed on a basalt or diorite stele 2.25 m (7 ft 4+1⁄2 in) tall. The stele was rediscovered in 1901 at the site of Susa in present-day Iran, where it had been taken as plunder six hundred years after its creation. The text itself was copied and studied by Mesopotamian scribes for over a millennium. The stele now resides in the Louvre Museum. The top of the stele features an image in relief of Hammurabi with Shamash, the Babylonian sun god and god of justice. Below the relief are about 4,130 lines of cuneiform text: one fifth contains a prologue and epilogue in poetic style, while the remaining four fifths contain what are generally called the laws. In the prologue, Hammurabi claims to have been granted his rule by the gods...

A court dismisses the House subpoena against Don McGahn.