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Wow, There Are a Lot of Drugs in This Book
A review of Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore’s new novel, Sketchtasy.
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What’s Wrong with Lake City?
Novelist Thomas Kohnstamm satirizes a local fictional loser.
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World Domination Chronicles Sub Pop’s Rise, Fall, and Rise
Gillian Gaar’s book is a treat for the label’s hardcore fans.
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Berlin Is a Masterpiece of a Graphic Novel
Jason Lutes’s exquisitely drawn story of the rise of fascism in Germany took 20 years to complete.
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Fairy Tales for Frightening Times
Rebecca Brown’s new book of dark fables turns the patriarchy on its head.
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Orcas Are Cool, but Have You Seen a Pacific Spiny Lumpsucker? Or a Wolf Eel? Or a Giant Pacific Octopus?
Drew Collins’s book of underwater photography celebrates Puget Sound’s lesser-known creatures.
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Why Did a Mother Throw Her Kids Off a Bridge?
What drove a woman to try to kill her own children in Portland?
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The Secret Token Exposes the Mythology of the Roanoke Colony
Journalist Andrew Lawler contextualizes one of America’s favorite mysteries.
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Why Is Everyone in the Northwest So Obsessed with Serial Killers?
Alice Bolin’s collection of essays, Dead Girls, has some answers.
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A Book About Longing, Self-Sabotage, and Distant Planets
Chelsea Hodson’s essays explore the haziness of young romance.
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The Long Odds of Poe Ballantine’s Whirlaway Pay Off
A weird, wonderful yarn about horse races, record collectors, and telepathic dogs.
