Aubrey Gordon's “You Just Need to Lose Weight” Is a Sharp Sword Against Anti-Fatness

The Maintenance Phase co-host and Your Fat Friend columnist wrote 20 short, sourced arguments you can hand to your body-shaming mom (and doctor).

The Mercury's Favorite Books of 2022

To read list: queer narratives, punk graphic novels, and tranquil apocalypse tales.

Q&A: Metro President Lynn Peterson on New Book, Roadways for People

Peterson calls for greater community engagement in transportation planning.

YOUR SUNDAY READING LIST: Council Votes to "Keep Portland MEAN" and Criminalize Homelessness

Plus: A wild look at Portland's underground scene, carnivorous 9-foot lizards, and David Sedaris is looking for a dead body.

David Sedaris Is Coming and Wants to Know Where He Can Find a Dead Body

“Whenever I Smell a Dead Deer or Something in the Woods I Get So Excited. Oh, It’s Finally My Time!”

How to Get Back to the Land of the Living

Morgan Talty’s debut book Night of the Living Rez follows a Penobscot family through time.

Downtown Portland Could Get a Comics Museum

Pacific Northwest comics world professionals want to create a Northwest Museum of Cartoon Arts.

2022 Portland Book Festival Author Highlights: Selma Blair, Kate Beaton, and (Of Course) Lidia Yuknavitch

"Ghetto Gastro Presents Black Power Kitchen" authors Jon Gray, Pierre Serrao, and Lester Walker will appear in conversation with Gregory Gourdet.

Kevin Sampsell’s Creative Chopping Block

I Made An Accident collects darkly humorous collages from a celebrated Portland author

Killer Prophets?

Leah Sottile's When the Moon Turns to Blood Examines Mormon Extremism at the Roots of Alleged Murders

Floating World Comics Is Moving Out of Old Town... to the Mall

After 16 years downtown, the comics culture hub moves into the Lloyd Center Mall's burgeoning arts district.

Portland Poet Matthew Dickman Airs His Cleanly Folded Laundry

Husbandry is his most focused collection of poems to date.

Lidia Yuknavitch Q & A: Portland's Proud Misfit Author on Her Novel Thrust, Climate Change, and Keeping Creativity Flowing

Portland Downtown Central Library Will Close for Three Months in August