Books

Floating World Comics announced Friday that it will move from Old Town Chinatown to a burgeoning arts district being created by indie businesses in Lloyd Center mall.

Matthew Dickman’s fourth poetry collection explores devoted domesticity and a painful breakup that precipitated his newfound world of single parenthood.

Lidia Yuknavitch (left), the cover of her new novel Thrust (right) Andy MIngo and Michael Connors If anyone has been instrumental in keeping literary Portland weird, it’s Lidia Yuknavitch. From her bestselling books to her much-written-about writer’s group with local literary darlings Cheryl Strayed, Chuck Palahniuk, and Chelsea Cain, to her quirky, indescribable writing center […]

A visual rendering of one of two planned outdoor terraces. Renderings courtesy of Hennebery Eddy Architects Come late summer, back-to-schoolers will want to note the closure of a favorite downtown study spot. Starting in August, Multnomah County Library (MCL)’s Central branch will close to the public for three months to allow for several concurrent construction […]

Courtesy of University of Oklahoma Press Mark O. Hatfield is one of the most significant politicians in Oregon’s history. He held office in the Oregon state legislature, spent two terms as governor, and had a thirty-year stint as Oregon’s US senator. His career is—in fact—fascinating for anyone interested in Oregon history, or broader American political […]

Anis Mojgani courtesy of Oregon Cultural Trust Oregon has a really cool poet laureate. And now we get to benefit from a second two-year term of Anis Mojgani’s creative and kind advocacy for poetry and the humanities. On Wednesday, Gov. Brown extended Mojgani’s term as Oregon Poet Laureate through 2024. Brown lauded Mojgani’s efforts to […]

Tavia Morra, courtesy of ak press Speculating about how the US will crack apart is a cottage industry for sci-fi authors and political commentators. Ernest Callenbach did it in 1975 with Ecotopia, a novel about the Pacific Northwest seceding from the rest of the country. In 1981, journalist Joel Garreau argued that the US was […]