“A lot of the road movies I like are about people who think they’re looking for freedom, but actually the freedom is very overwhelming for them,” says British director Andrew Haigh. “That’s the problem with freedom sometimes: You end up incredibly scared and alone.” Haigh’s fantastic and harrowing new film, Lean on Pete, explores the […]
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British Director Andrew Haigh on the Real-World Problems of Lean on Pete
A Boy, His Horse, and the Challenge of Adapting Willy Vlautin’s Sad, Wonderful Novel
A boy, his horse, and the challenge of adapting Willy Vlautin’s sad, wonderful novel.
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Red Clocks: Speculative Lit at Its Finest
The Radical Potential of Leni Zumas’ Oregon Coast Dystopia
The radical potential of Leni Zumas’ Oregon coast dystopia.
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Ursula K. Le Guin: A New Book of Interviews, a Tribute Event, and More
Even after her death on January 22, there continue to be new ways to appreciate the life and work of Portland author Ursula K. Le Guin. Yesterday saw Tin House’s release of Conversations on Writing, a book collected from a series of interviews Le Guin did with Between the Covers podcast host David Naimon. The […]
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Cecile Richards, WYD?
The Outgoing Planned Parenthood President and Daughter of Badass Politico Ann Richards Prepares to Make Trouble
The outgoing Planned Parenthood president and daughter of badass politico Ann Richards prepares to Make Trouble.
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Jesse Ball’s Elusive Census
It’s like The Road, but About More Census-Taking and Down Syndrome
It’s like The Road, but about census-taking and Down syndrome.
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“Reality Disappoints Regularly” in Men and Apparitions
Lynne Tillman’s Latest Captures a Scourge of Modern Life
Lynne Tillman’s latest captures a scourge of modern life.
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Matthew Dickman’s Third Book of Poetry Wrestles with White Supremacy in Portland
Did you ever watch your childhood friend transform into a neo-Nazi right before your eyes? The speaker in Matthew Dickman’s Wonderland has, and he details that transformation in a striking series of poems of the same title. (By the way, in poetry school the “speaker” just means the “narrator.”) The Wonderland poems follow a boy […]
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That Feeling When Your Friend Becomes a Nazi
Matthew Dickman’s Third Book of Poetry Wrestles with White Supremacy in Portland
Did you ever watch your childhood friend transform into a neo-Nazi before your eyes?
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Ava DuVernay’s A Wrinkle in Time Isn’t the One You Grew Up With. That’s Okay.
My first memories of Madeleine L’Engle’s genre-crossing YA adventure novel A Wrinkle in Time are, for the most part, ones of amused confusion. It’s an engrossing fantasy about a teenage girl, Meg, who—despite her anxieties and faults, and with the help of some friends and three extra-dimensional beings named Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who, and Mrs. […]
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Surprises and Horrors in Full Bleed, Portland’s New Comics and Culture Quarterly
The first volume of a print-only, ad-free, hardcover “comics and culture quarterly,” Full Bleed is nothing if not ambitious. Collecting comics, essays, interviews, and fiction, it’s a hefty, well-designed thing from the Portland-based branch of IDW. The publisher’s best known for its oversized artist editions, which reproduce the work of comics greats like Jim Steranko […]
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The Anti-Trump Book Club Returns with Luke Harding’s Collusion
It’s impossible for any book to keep pace with the breakneck speed of the Trump-era news cycle. Every day is, seemingly, another insane news day. But for anyone looking for a broad overview of what we know about the case for collusion with Russia, there’s a great book now available in paperback. In its most […]