William Morrow I’m still reading Neal Stephenson’s Seveneves. I finished it a month ago but I’m still reading it. I’ve been going back over different sections—like the engineering wank parts I skipped the first time through. There are people who will read Seveneves primarily for these wank parts (I see you, technocrats) but the real […]
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Suzette Smith is the arts & culture editor of the Portland Mercury. Go ahead and tell her about all your food, art, and culture gripes: suzette@portlandmercury.com. Follow her on Twitter, Bluesky, and Letterboxd.
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Neal Stephenson’s New Space Epic
Seveneves Is His Most Accessible Book to Date
Seveneves (yeah, that’s a palindrome) is his most accessible to date.
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How to Get Someone to Take You to the River
How to Get Someone to Take You to the River
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Going to Linework NW? Here’s Your Essential Guide to Small Press Comics Releases
Portland spring emerges from her dainty (organic, grass-fed) clamshell and unpacks her greens, her rains, some guys that want to yell at you, and a hot mess of new releases from small press comics publishers. So it’s appropriate that the small press comics festival Linework NW also happens in spring at the beautiful Norse Hall. […]
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A Terrible Pretty Okay Book, Reviewed in Doodles: Rachel Brathen’s Yoga Girl
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Things Get Emo in Insurgent
INSURGENT “Please—I need help. Miles Teller won’t stop staring at me.” Far in the future, the farmlands surrounding Chicago become a tropical paradise. That’s right: Super-hot-in-the-summer, super-cold-in-the-winter Chicago is now a hippie dream where people wear light fabrics and sleep in hammocks. Of all the things in Insurgent—the second installment of the YA sci-fi action […]
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A Terrible Book, Reviewed in Doodles: Dirty Rush by “Taylor Bell”
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Pixie Sticking Points
In The Sculptor, Scott McCloud Has Some Explaining to Do
In The Sculptor, Scott McCloud has some explaining to do.
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SoCal Gothic
Miranda July’s Debut Novel Is… Kooky, with Eerie Depth
Miranda July’s debut novel is… kooky, with eerie depth.
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Building a Vocabulary
Words for Allie Hankins’ Physical Education
Performer Allie Hankins on injury, failure, and Physical Education.
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Kingdom of Dreams and Dads
Japanese Currents: Hope You Like Dads!
Japanese Currents: Hope you like dads!