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What Trump aides who wrote tell-all books said, before and after
As each tell-all has emerged, so has the question: Why didn't they speak up sooner? Here's a look at what Mark Esper, William Barr, John...

Kelly Lytle Hernández on the hidden history of the magonistas, the intertwined rise of policing
Historian Kelly Lytle Hernández speaks with The Seattle Times about her new book, “Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands.”

12 things to do in the Seattle area this weekend
Check out this Seattle Times list of outdoor happenings, local events, food recommendations and other activities for the weekend of May 13-15 in the Seattle...

Seattle libraries to resume pre-pandemic borrowing policies
Some Seattle library branches are expanding hours and hold and overdue times will be reduced starting May 23.

Mississippi school board upholds firing over ‘New Butt’ book
A Mississippi educator fired for reading a children’s book called “I Need a New Butt!” says he will take his fight to court after the...

This summer, Blue Kettle Books will drive Seattle’s newest and smallest bookstore to you
What’s most surprising when you walk into this "bookstore on wheels" for the first time is how cozy and, well, bookstore-ish it feels.

‘When Women Were Dragons’ explores a way out of a world with 1950s-style repression on women
In her first novel for adult readers, Kelly Barnhill imagines a world where women face 1950s-style constraints, and find a path out.

Prize-winning ‘Netanyahus’ author says it’s also about Trump
Joshua Cohen, who won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel “The Netanyahus,” says he had another famously divisive political family in mind when he wrote...