Narcissa Prentiss Whitman was one of the first white women to cross the Rocky Mountains, and later became one of 13 people killed in the...
The Seattle General Strike lasted six days, with not a single shot fired nor a single striker arrested. A new edition of Robert L. Friedheim's...
2018 brought much to enjoy in the way of nonfiction. Here are seven books that drew in Seattle Times literary critic Mary Ann Gwinn.
Fairies? Those gossamer-winged princesses from the golden age of Disney? People are scary enough — what could humans possibly fear from fairies? Richard Sugg’s engrossing...
After 14 years, James Mustich’s “1,000 Books to Read Before You Die” offers 960 pages of essential recommendations. Here’s what he had to say about...
Present got you down? Cheer up with a story from the past.
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...
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...