Peter Kadzis

Senior Editor

Peter Kadzis is the senior editor of WGBH News. He formerly was a senior editor of the Boston Phoenix, an alternative newsweekly.

Peter Kadzis is the senior editor of WGBH News. He formerly was a senior editor of the Boston Phoenix, an alternative newsweekly.

The array of events Monday ahead of the sentencing of the Boston Marathon bomber emphasizes something unique about Boston in relation to the rest of America.

How William Faulkner could explain Boston, a bombing, another marathon and punishment

The Mississippi novelist may have put it best about America's relationship to history. But a Boston Marathon, Patriots Day, and century-old Red Sox tradition, smack against the sentencing phase of the Boston bombing trial, casts Boston in stark relief to Faulkner's nation.

How William Faulkner could explain Boston, a bombing, another marathon and punishment