The Cape Cod Canal, built by the Army Corps of Engineers in 1914, cut through the base of what had been a peninsula, effectively turning the Cape into an island -- a world apart -- accessible by car ...

THAT OLD CAPE MAGIC By Richard Russo Knopf, $26.95, 262 pages REVIEWED BY JOHN GREENYA Every year, Jack Griffin’s parents would drive from the Midwest, where they were both unhappy-to-miserable ...

Richard Russo couldn’t write a bad book if his life depended on it, but what he has written in “That Old Cape Magic” is one considerably less enjoyable than his Pulitzer-winning “Empire Falls” or ...

I have long believed the Cape Cod Canal to be a magical place, but one morning as I did a “dawn patrol” bike ride with a friend, I saw proof. The sun was just rising over the Atlantic, and an ...

TRURO – He’s been here near the tip of Cape Cod long enough to have watched hemlines and haircuts dramatically yo-yo, to remember finger-snapping beatniks and flower-power hippies, to recall boomtime ...

Plans for Group One winner Magic Cape are in disarray after his dismal performance at Ruakaka, his first start since he injured a leg in the Cox Plate. Trainer Shaune Ritchie said Magic Cape was ...

Storytelling is a talent, but one not defined by a single skill. There are masters of suspense, of mood, of romance, of surprise - wizards possessed of a thousand different spells that provoke the ...

The first thing you notice about That Old Cape Magic is its length: Compared to Richard Russo's previous doorstoppers (Empire Falls is nearly 500 pages; Bridge of Sighs tops 600), Cape Magic is an ...

Much of Pulitzer-prize-winner Richard Russo’s new novel takes place on the beach, but this not your typical beach read. The Griffins aren’t your typical family. In fact, the typical family is an ...

"That Old Cape Magic" by Richard RussoIn any event his wife’s suggestion that he go on without her had seemed less than sincere, which was why he decided to call her bluff. “All right,” he said, “that ...