The Public Domain Is About to Start Growing Again

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Portland Literary Magazine Tin House Is Publishing Its Final Issue in 2019

A New Book Claims to Have Pinpointed the Most Effective Cure for Hangovers

Lost Portland Uncovers Not Only Dead Buildings but the History of Portland's Arsonist Firefighter

Rejoice: Michelle Obama is Coming to Portland!

In the New Chapbook from Future Tense, Felicity Fenton Dives into Social Media Addiction

Japanese Bookstore Chain Kinokuniya Announces Downtown Store in Former Guild Theatre

We Have Gone Entirely Too Long Without The Witches Scaring the Shit Out of Our Children

AMC's The Little Drummer Girl Is Complicated, and So Are My Feelings About It

Tavern Books Revives and Republishes Killing Floor, a Powerful Collection by a Poet Known Simply as Ai

Portland Book Festival 2018 Report: Panels Are the Highlight, but the Lines Are Better Too

Portland LitCrawl 2018: We Went to Eight Readings! Here's What We Thought!

Wordstock 2018: Um, Actually, I Think You Mean Portland Book Festival

Dungeons & Dragons Art & Arcana: A Visual History Offers a Fun, Weird Glimpse Into the Fun, Weird History of D&D

Erin Gibson’s Feminasty Is a Blazing Collection of Feminist Essays

Polyamorous Sci-Fi Graphic Novel Open Earth Feels Lost in Space

Death-Positive Mortician Caitlin Doughty Wants You to Know the Grim Reaper's Hand Is Up Your Butt

Ryan North's Long View Perspective in How to Invent Everything Curves Towards Hope For Humanity

Pop-Up Magazine Mashes Cross-Medium Storytellers into a Unique Night of Live Performance

Anastacia-Reneé, jamie mortara, and Emily Sieu Liebowitz Are Three Poets You Must Hear

Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin Review: A Thoughtful, Reverent Portrait of Portland's Greatest Writer

W. Kamau Bell’s Insightful Sociopolitical Commentary Brings the House Down

Mohamed Asem’s Revealing Memoir of Airport Detention

Asem Experiences Racism and Self-Reflection in Stranger In the Pen

Americans in Paris in Patrick deWitt’s Wry, Dry French Exit

The Portland Author Expands His Literary Purview to the Idle Rich

Katie Ford’s Heartbreaking Sonnets Strike a Chord

The Looming Shadow of Divorce in Ford’s Latest If You Have To Go

Why Did a Mother Throw Her Kids Off a Bridge?

Julie Whipple’s Crash Course Will Make You Never Want to Fly Again

The 1978 Portland Crash Changed Commercial Flight as We Knew It

New Graphic Novels: The Adventure Zone: Here There Be Gerblins, Sanpaku and Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles

Check Out My Very Good Taste in Comics

Alice Bolin's Dead Girls Explores Why Everyone in the Northwest Is so Obsessed with Serial Killers

The Secret Token Exposes the Mythology of the Roanoke Colony

Journalist Author Andrew Lawler Contextualizes One of America’s Favorite Mysteries

Author Q&A with Portland Literary Detective Paul Collins

His Tenth Book Blood and Ivy Investigates a Scandalous Harvard Murder

Author Claire L. Evans’ Broad Band Reveals Women’s Contributions to Tech

A Hidden History of Computing, from the 1800s to the 1990s

Bad Moms and Brutal Honesty in I Will Be Complete

Glen David Gold’s Memoir Recounts a Singularly Awful Upbringing

Genevieve Hudson’s Pretend We Live Here Boldly Makes Queerness the Norm

Hudson’s Fierce Debut Finds a Fitting Home at Future Tense Books

Let's Fight: Reading Indoors vs. Reading Outdoors

The Floor Pooping in My Year of Rest and Relaxation Feels Completely Normal

Interview: Ottessa Moshfegh on Her New Novel’s Deadpan Spin-Out

Chelsea Hodson's Tonight I'm Someone Else Explores the Haziness of Young Romance

Our Picks for Tin House’s Free Summer Reading Series

Listen to These Authors Read in an Outdoor Amphitheater at Magic Hour

Geneviève Castrée’s Last Book is a Baby Book for Her Daughter

Despite Its Tragic Circumstances, in A Bubble All Is Well

Rita Bullwinkel’s Belly Up Is Like an Endless Jungle

The Latest, Impressive Short Story Collection from A Strange Object

Dan Pfeiffer Speaks at Revolution Hall Tonight and I’ll Be On Stage Too

Melissa Broder’s Realistic Fish-Person Relationship Book

Romance Dies, but Merman Sex Lives on in The Pisces

Anti-Trump Book Club: Interview with Pod Save America’s Dan Pfeiffer

Yes We (Still) Can, Obama’s Savvy Court Skills, and Hope for the 2018 Election

Jodie Hollander’s Poems Surmount Emotional Milestones

My Dark Horses Tackles Insecurity, Devastation, and Acceptance

Don’t Get Your Feminism from The Misandrists

Bruce LaBruce Is Like John Waters with More Porn

The Long Odds of Poe Ballantine’s Whirlaway Pay Off

A Weird, Wonderful Yarn About Horse Races, Record Collectors, and Telepathic Dogs

Jason Heller’s Strange Stars Rehashes the Space-Obsessed ’70s

There's a Starman Still Waiting in the Sky

Islamophobia in the USA

American Islamophobia Reveals Our Nation’s Long History of Prejudice

Deep Inside the Malheur Standoff

Chosen Country Author James Pogue Was Embedded with the Bundys