With a new Northwest-set book, David Guterson meditates on uncertainty, time, primal fears
This is an experiment, the author says, “where words and the world meet in musicality” — but it is something else, too. These poems attempt...
In Octavio Solis’ carefully crafted ‘Retablos,’ an expansive new vision of a troubled America
A highly regarded playwright, Solis' new collection of pocket-size memoirs is a uniquely personal project that brings to life vivid memories and misadventures from his...
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...