Today's Stranger Suggests: Jane Wong with Michelle Peñaloza and Jin Ai Huang

One Really Great Thing to Do Every Day of the Week

Today's Stranger Suggests: Seattle Independent Bookstore Day 2023

We Almost Lost the Couth Buzzard Last Week, for Crying Out Loud, and I Won’t Stand for It

Seattle Needs Every Indie Hippieshit Bookstore-Slash-Community Space We Can Hang Onto. Most of All This One.

Soft Sounds from Another Planet

Talking to Michelle Zauner About Growing Up in Oregon, Moving to South Korea, and Writing a Screenplay Based on Her Memoir

Bananas Are Creepy Yellow Fingers Full of Blood

A New Poetry Collection Tells the Whole Story

Steve Turner Dishes the Dirt in Mud Ride

A History of Grunge in the Form of a Memoir by Mudhoney's Guitarist

Heat Waves

Climate Journalist Jake Bittle on Climate Migration, Climate Displacement and How the Pacific Northwest Isn’t Prepared for Either

California Über Alles

Malcolm Harris on How Tech-Hub Palo Alto Is (and Isn't) Like Seattle and Why He Doesn't Mention the Grateful Dead in His New Book Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World

An Interview With Annalee Newitz

"I Love Hearing the Opinions of Worms and Cats"

An Interview With Aubrey Gordon

“I Hope This Is a Book That Becomes Obsolete Very Quickly.”

Literary Genius Jonathan Raban Has Died

The Travel Writer and Novelist was 80 Years Old

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)

Two Graphic Novels to Tuck Into During the Big Dark

Immerse Yourself in the Worlds Created by Megan Kelso and Brett Hamil

This Week's Comics: A Film-Noir Murder Mystery in a Magic Fantasy City

Plus: Mythical Demons and a Friendly Chupacabra!

Those Who Love Kindred the Novel Will Certainly Hate Kindred the TV Series

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Missed What Made Octavia Butler's Book Such a Compelling Philosophical Story

Transmissions from Unknown Sources

Kranky Co-founder Bruce Adams's You're with Stupid Documents a World-Class Record Label and Music Scene

Adam Smith: The Worst Influencer

A Scottish Thinker, American Politicians, and the Fuckery of Free Markets