Illustrated Inspiration
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy. HarperOne, $22.99. Although this was published in 2019, we want to include it … Continue reading
Books Archive
Science Fiction
Axiom’s End by Lindsay Ellis. St. Martin’s Press, $27.95. Hugo Award finalist Lindsay Ellis is one of the sharpest media critics working today. Her YouTube … Continue reading
Not Trump
A Promised Land by Barack Obama. Crown Publishing, $45. A Promised Land reads like Barack Obama is speaking to you — in that unique way the … Continue reading
Mystery and Suspense
Best Laid Plans by Gwen Florio. Severn House, $28.99. Nora Best is about to embark on a great adventure with her husband, traveling the country … Continue reading
Trumpery
Rage by Bob Woodward. Simon & Schuster, $27.95. For all of the books out there on Trump, Bob Woodward’s reporting will most likely be the … Continue reading
“Lamina”
A short story by Eliza Master
Now Johnny’s gone. Tyana texts from the window sill. Her legs dangle outside. She won’t tell Max where Johnny went. An updraft blows her skirt … Continue reading
Master of Horror
Just in time for Halloween, Eliza Master talks about the benefits of a really horrible imagination
The great thing about reading horror stories, Eliza Master says, is that they allow us to explore our darkest impulses without actually having to do … Continue reading
Addicted
A Seattle singer-songwriter faces the music three decades after Cobain
The Seattle music scene of the ’90s that gave rise to a slew of now legendary bands — Nirvana, Soundgarden and Pearl Jam, to name … Continue reading
Essential Reading
Books can guide us through a time of reckoning and awakening
In 2003, at the age of 92, revolutionary philosopher and activist Grace Lee Boggs delivered an impassioned speech titled “These are the times to grow … Continue reading
Show, Don’t Read
Oregon names a new poet laureate. Expect to be energized.
Oregon has a new official poet laureate. On May 4, Anis Mojgani became the 10th poet to enjoy that slightly archaic-sounding title — and the … Continue reading