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[This profile originally appeared in our sister pub The Stranger. -eds] Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore takes long and meandering walks through Capitol Hill most days. From the height of summer to the depths of winter, if the sun is out, she’s soaking in it. On these walks during the pandemic lockdown, Terry Dactyl came to her. She […]

At Portland Book Festival, in November, you may have noticed an icon on t-shirts, posters, and social media of Literary Arts’ red umbrella dropping bombs. The graphic read “Drop Wells Fargo” and “Literary Portland for Palestine.” The shirts were a next step in a call to action, which grew loud in late summer and shows […]

This piece was first published by our sister publication The Stranger. Jeannie Vanasco has unintentionally built a reputation for an unusual degree of grace and forgiveness than your average human (me). Most notably, her second book, Things We Didn’t Talk About When I Was a Girl, is one in which she investigates her rape and […]

Find a copy of the print issue! Subscribe to print issues! Support us! When Leni Zumas’ Red Clocks came out in 2018, the speculative novel was widely lauded, not just for Zumas’ quicksilver prose, but for the story’s dystopic setting: a United States of America where the practice of abortion has been criminalized. Now, in the […]

More than 80 authors will appear at the 2025 festival.