Dave Eggers’ ‘The Monk of Mokha’ explores a coffee-flavored American dream | Book review
A young immigrant from Yemen becomes a coffee exporter in Eggers’ latest nonfiction page-turner.
Review: South Sound exhibits explore contemporary art with ancient roots | Art review
Tacoma Art Museum, White River Valley Museum show modern Northwest Coast indigenous artists.
More than the hermit of Walden: A new biography shows us a fully dimensional Thoreau | Book review
Just in time for the 200th anniversary of Henry David Thoreau’s birth, former Seattleite Laura Dassow Walls’ 640-page biography of Thoreau revisits his works, letters,...
Literary landscapes: A book-filled journey through Whatcom County
Beat poets, local novelists and Pulitzer Prize winners pepper the literary landscape in our state’s northwest corner.
The Tri-Cities’ contribution to our literary landscape: a poet laureate and shapeshifting werewolves
Take a literary tour of the Tri-Cities of southeast Washington, which has inspired poets, fantasy writers and historians with its rich mix of dramatic landscapes...
Jim Lynch’s ‘Before the Wind’: a storm-tossed Seattle family | Book review
Olympia novelist Jim Lynch returns with “Before the Wind,” the story of an eccentric Seattle family of sailors whose resistance to change sometimes seems like...
The embattled heart and home of Julia Ward Howe | Book review
Elaine Showalter’s “The Civil Wars of Julia Ward Howe” is a beautifully crafted biography of the author of “The Battle Hymn of the Republic,” whose...
‘The Secret Chord’: the brutal rise to power of David the king | Book review
Geraldine Brooks’ new novel, “The Secret Chord,” is based on the life of the Biblical David, a charismatic leader who used terrible violence to consolidate...