New book tells of journey across the ‘other border’ — the 4,000-mile line between the U.S. and Canada
Porter Fox vividly conveys the beauty of a remote, lightly touched place in this account of his journey from the coast of Maine to Blaine’s...
Mary Ann Gwinn
A botanist, a pope and a princess: Three new biographies
Three writers dive into the lives of the beautiful, brilliant and bad-tempered Princess Margaret; Pius IX, a terrible leader and politician; and physician and passionate...
A book-filled visit to Edinburgh, Seattle’s sister City of Literature | Lit Life
As a brand-new UNESCO City of Literature, what can Seattle learn from the world’s first City of Literature? A writer spends four bookish days in...
Lit Life: A state, a slave, a spy — three remarkable new works of nonfiction | Lit Life
Lawrence Wright, Zora Neale Hurston and Roland Philipps take us to worlds we’d otherwise not know.
‘Warlight’: a dreamlike novel about spies, family secrets and lies
“Warlight” is a WWII spy story, a mother-son story and a love story. They are eloquently told and heartbreakingly believable, but the main reason to...
Steven Pinker’s ‘Enlightenment Now’ is shock therapy for pessimists | Lit Life
The Harvard University professor writes, in his new book, about how we’re better off than ever.