Alan Moores | The Seattle Times

April 29, 2018 at 6:00 am

‘Natural Causes’: Author takes on our notions of wellness, aging, death

Barbara Ehrenreich embarks on a wide-ranging critique of the presumptions embedded in our health-care system, our dietary and exercise regimens, our notions of aging, even...

December 23, 2016 at 2:50 pm

Let’s make every day Bicycle Sunday in the heart of Seattle | Op-Ed

Our most effective technology to mitigate global warming is the humble bike. And the best way to put more people on a bike is to...

May 29, 2016 at 6:00 am

The long-simmering scandal of ‘The Boys in the Bunkhouse’ | Book review

In “The Boys in the Bunkhouse,” New York Times reporter Dan Barry chronicles the scandalous and heartbreaking true story of a group of developmentally disabled...

April 24, 2015 at 5:03 am

‘Children of the Stone’: the power of music in a hard place | Book review

In “Children of the Stone,” journalist Sandy Tolan tells the story of a group of Palestinian musicians who used their collective talents to bring the...

September 12, 2014 at 6:05 am

‘The Human Age’: survey of the wonders of a battered Earth

Science writer Diane Ackerman was tethered for years to the colossal task of nursing her novelist husband Paul West back from the massive stroke he...

July 20, 2014 at 6:05 am

‘Carsick’: John Waters hitchhikes across America

‘Carsick: John Waters Hitchhikes across America’ by John Waters Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 322 pp., $26 If America has finally come to accept, if not...

April 13, 2014 at 6:15 am

‘Poison Spring:’ decades of lax enforcement by the EPA

“Poison Spring: The Secret History of Pollution and the EPA” by E.G. Vallianatos with McKay Jenkins Bloomsbury, 284 pp., $28 Many Americans are probably only...

March 16, 2014 at 6:15 am

‘Life is a Wheel’: writing and riding across America

‘Life is a Wheel: Love, Death, Etc., and a Bike Ride Across America’ by BruceWeber Scribner, 352 pp., $26 New York Times reporter Bruce Weber...

December 29, 2013 at 3:03 am

‘Sorry!’ a guide through the thicket of English manners

‘Sorry! The English and Their Manners’ by Henry Hitchings Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 400 pp., $28 First, let’s be clear: Henry Hitchings, author of “Sorry!,”...

March 17, 2013 at 5:00 am

‘Overbooked’: the impact of exploding tourism on cultures and environments

‘Overbooked: The Exploding Business of Travel and Tourism’ by Elizabeth Becker Simon & Schuster, 432 pp., $28 Global travelers set a record last year, surpassing...