Helen Keller was uniquely positioned to judge misfortune. She delivered her verdict in a 1910 letter: “The problems of deafness are deeper and more complex, if not more important, than those of ...

Norwich native and former Merrill House writer-in-residence John Cotter appears Tuesday in Mystic at Bank Square Books. He’s celebrating the publication of “Losing Music,” a memoir about a mysterious ...

In 2008, writer John Cotter first started hearing a ringing in his ear. It’s the kind of annoyance that everyone experiences at some point — after a loud concert, say, or time spent near a ...