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A new nonfiction history, Let My Country Awake, explores the complexity of Indian resistance against the British Empire during World War I.
“Cars ruin everything.”
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 […]
Leni Zumas’ new novel is a nice (and quietly subversive) story about a multigenerational, intentional community.
Stacey Abrams explains artificial intelligence through the lens of Coded Justice.
We ran this piece in June 2025, but are sharing it again because Rupert Kinnard will be signing books at the Northwest Museum of Cartoon Arts booth at Rose City Comic Con on Saturday.
Portland might not have professional tournaments or world-class tennis academies, and many of the city’s public courts have seen better days. But Portlander Tyler Pell sees potential in the city’s community tennis culture. He wants to make sure other people see it, too. Enter Portland Tennis Courterly: The stylish, quarterly (get it?) newsletter devoted to […]
More than 80 authors will appear at the 2025 festival.
“When you call my name, it’s like a little prayer. I’m down on my knees, I wanna take you there.”
Its shelves are filled, the stage is built, and now Mother Foucault’s wants to buy. The vintage bookshop announced Tuesday that it’s seizing a chance to purchase the building it currently occupies, at 715 SE Grand. That opportunity expires on September 21, if it can’t raise $300,000 for a downpayment. Built in 1892, the Nathaniel […]
John and Rafael Hart, the couple behind North Portland’s worker-owned, queer-focused Always Here bookstore, are planning to stick around for the long haul. After about a year and a half operating their store as a pop-up, Always Here recently reopened in the old Craft Factory storefront on the corner of N Williams at Going Street. […]
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