Moira's Book Club will hold its online discussion of James Lee Burke's "The Neon Rain" at noon on Oct. 16.
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At a time when many comic-book retailers are in full retreat, two local shops buck the trend VIEW
In an unpredictable industry, a crowdfunding campaign saved Tacoma comics shop Destiny City Comics, and on Capitol Hill, expanding into games has helped Phoenix Comics...
What’s there to do in Seattle this weekend? Happy hours, crime fiction, beer science and more
If you haven't already heard, "The Big Dark" is here, and it's not going to spare your weekend. Luckily, Seattle has an abundance of activities...
UW professor Joanna Russ, with Ursula K. Le Guin and others, brought feminist bent to science fiction
With the '60s came the rise of women science fiction writers like Kate Wilhelm, Ursula K. Le Guin, Suzette Hayden Elgin and Vonda McIntyre, but...
What the Pacific Northwest is reading: Ta-Nehisi Coates, Ben Lerner and genre-defying novels
Ben Lerner and Ta-Nehisi Coates are both using the novel as a vehicle to discuss societal tensions and ideas of lineage, while challenging commonly-held assumptions...
You recommended your favorite crime fiction. Here’s our take on some of them. | The Plot Thickens
While slowly making her way through the extremely long list of crime-fiction authors recommended by readers last month, Seattle Times arts critic Moira Macdonald thought...
Is modern life making us miserable? ‘Civilized to Death’ author Christopher Ryan thinks so.
Were we happier as hunter-gatherers? A new book from the co-author of "Sex at Dawn" makes that case.