Sex, lies and fraught family ties fill Elena Ferrante’s latest, ‘The Lying Life of Adults’
Bestselling Italian novelist Elena Ferrante brings readers to suburban Naples in her new novel, "The Lying Life of Adults," which follows a daughter as she...
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Heartbreaking, brilliant ‘Transcendent Kingdom’ is a luminous story of faith and family from Yaa Gyasi
In "Transcendent Kingdom," the hotly anticipated follow-up to Yaa Gyasi's 2018 novel "Homegoing," the writer explores the heartbreaking dynamics of an immigrant family roiled by...
Celebrate the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage with 3 books that might shift your perspective
On Aug. 18, 1920, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution enfranchised all American women — or so the story goes. These three books provide...
Debates of feminism, Blackness, class and more form Bernardine Evaristo’s deeply profound ‘Girl, Woman, Other’
The unique, diverse perspectives of 12 characters, mostly Black women, collide with each other in Bernadine Evaristo's excellent, challenging "Girl, Woman, Other," co-winner of the...
Ezra Klein argues the American political system is working exactly as intended in ‘Why We’re Polarized’
Vox co-founder Ezra Klein says the American electorate is more polarized than ever. But there's no flaw in our political system — in "Why We're...
Anna Wiener cautions against the dark frontier of tech’s future in ‘Uncanny Valley’
In "Uncanny Valley," New Yorker columnist Anna Wiener recalls her time in Silicon Valley, and how optimism and opportunity gave way to unchecked incursions in...
Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association names 2020 award winners, including Ted Chiang’s ‘Exhalation’ VIEW
Ted Chiang's "Exhalation" and five other works by Seattle-area authors were announced as winners of the 2020 Pacific Northwest Book Awards.
Seattle’s independent bookstores reflect on the past decade’s bestselling titles VIEW
From memoir to fiction for adults and kids, too, these were the top books from Washington-state authors that went on to be bestselling titles in...
A new paradigm for political comics: The latest from Drawn & Quarterly VIEW
Recent comics published by Montreal's Drawn & Quarterly — some with local ties — explore the precarity of our cultural moment in ways that are...