Anna Kusmer

Jun 14, 2024 | bostonglobe.com | Shirley Leung |Anna Kusmer

We’ve been thinking about productivity wrong. So says Cal Newport, an MIT-trained computer scientist and best-selling author who writes about how to work better in our overstimulated world. In this second installment of the Say More series, Beating Burnout, Newport talks to host Shirley Leung about the ways the modern office worker is primed for professional burnout, how hybrid work makes it worse, and what we can do about it. Newport is no Luddite.

May 31, 2024 | bostonglobe.com | Shirley Leung |Anna Kusmer

Yoshida Nelsen spent years feeling pigeon-holed playing Suzuki in “Madame Butterfly.” She has performed the mezzo-soprano role close to 200 times. Today those feelings are just the start of an exciting conversation about the future of the art form. Here are edited excerpts from the conversation recorded at the Boston Lyric Opera’s creative studio in Fort Point.

May 31, 2024 | atlasobscura.com | Eden Gordon |Jim Kempton |Anna Kusmer |Tao Tao Holmes

Hope you brought your boards for this deep dive into the world of surfing. In the Atlas Obscura archives, we found the Hawaiian princess who saved the sport from extinction, the man who made California’s beaches a more inclusive place, and an intrepid community that turned surfing the Great Lakes in winter into an actual thing. Icy wind rolls off the shores of Lake Ontario, blowing past rows of pines and naked birches and reeling through the deserted streets of Rochester, New York.

May 22, 2024 | bostonglobe.com | Shirley Leung |Anna Kusmer

If you haven’t followed every twist and turn of the Karen Read case, here’s your chance to get caught up. Sean Cotter, a Boston Globe reporter who has been covering the trial, and Rebecca Lavoie, host of the popular “Crime Writers On … " podcast, are guests on this week’s episode of Globe Opinion’s “Say More” podcast. Listen at globe.com/saymore and wherever you find your podcasts.

Apr 26, 2024 | bostonglobe.com | Anna Kusmer

Elizabeth Kolbert’s latest book on climate change will surprise readers: It’s an illustrated book aimed at adults. The New Yorker writer — who lives in Williamstown, Mass. — is known for her lucid analysis of global warming. But instead of delivering another lengthy magazine article or book, she chose an approach that makes the complex topic accessible. The result is “H is For Hope” — which traces the history, present, and future of climate change from A to Z.