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Discovering ‘The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’
The "Invention of Nature" reveals how Humboldt transformed our understanding of nature's interconnectedness. more
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After the Fall: ‘Death and the Maiden’ by Ariel Dorfman
KP READS: "Death and the Maiden" is a tense psychological drama that explores the themes of justice, trauma, and revenge. more
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The Life of Katharine Graham: ‘Personal History’ Is All on the Record
KP READS: Katharine Graham was an extraordinary woman, living an extraordinary life in an extraordinary time. Her memoir is an astonishingly frank, honest and generous book by one of America’s most famous and admired women. more
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Reading ‘Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents’
Compelling, persuasive, and unsettling, "Caste" ought to be required reading for every American. more
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Barbara Kingsolver’s Mission in ‘The Poisonwood Bible’
A Baptist missionary named Nathan Price leaves Georgia and takes his wife and four daughters to a small town in the Congo in 1959. What could go wrong? more
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‘Father and Son: A Memoir’ by Jonathan Raban, His Final Journey
The great travel writer Jonathan Raban survived a stroke while sitting at his Seattle dinner table one evening with his 18-year-old daughter, Julia. more
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‘The Lost Upland: Stories of Southwestern France’
I no longer remember when I first encountered the poems of W.S. Merwin, but it was likely in some snooty magazine back in the 1980s I had no business reading. Once discovered, I sought out his poetry … more
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Traveling Through Space, Time and Life ‘On a Sunbeam’ by Tillie Walden
The scene took place last Spring. Four middle-aged male humanities professors were sitting together in a pub in Vancouver, BC, sipping beer, sharing their impressions of a just-concluded conference. … more
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Her first book, published in 1956, is a rare window into early thinking about the modern nation of Israel and all of her people.
Violence in the Holy Land: 'Bible and Sword'
It was a long evening with old friends and their children, who outnumbered us at our long table, all in college or college-aged, as we found our way through a cold ceviche, warm pear salad, and a … more
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A History of Free Speech
Violence tests us in unexpected ways. It strains our identity when the time comes to defend all those fancy principles we think we hold. I was already suitably humbled when I heard the … more
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Explore the Hidden Wonders Around Us
Dusk, late summer. A deer works the edge of the pasture. A lonely frog, peeping, is answered by a cricket. As the light slips, a bat skitters in and out of the shrinking circle I can see. more
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Whatever History Has Forgotten, Seattle Put His People First
A year ago in September, I wrote about a few books in these pages that I thought our community might read and asked for suggestions for those many titles I certainly missed. One that came in … more
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Like Climbing a Real Mountain, Only Better
As someone who teaches college-level literature classes for a living, once or twice a year I find myself giving my students some version of this speech: It’s no surprise to me that I only … more
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‘The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows’
One day last month I was standing in line at my neighborhood gas station with a six-pack in one hand and a three-day-old corndog in the other when a tall, younger (than me) Black man with a … more
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Reading William L. Shirer, or Why I Miss the 20th Century
Maybe you miss it too. Or maybe you just missed it, or missed most of it. Not that it was all lollipops and moonbeams. There was plenty of horrible stuff. But looking back, a lot of important things … more
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Learning from a Memoir
Do you know what nonbinary means? If you don’t care to know, do you think others should have the opportunity to read about it if they so choose, like at a library? What if … more
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Critical Indigenous Theory
One of the greatest summers of my life was spent in New York City in 1986. I had worked my way through a prestigious university with honors, survived a year of lymphoma, and landed my dream job … more
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The Laughing Voice of Doom
Late last fall I read that one of my favorite directors, Noah Baumbach, had written and directed a movie based on the novel “White Noise” by Don DeLillo from the 1980s. I read the book … more
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A Story of Justice and Redemption
In 1986, an 18-year-old white woman named Ronda Morrison was murdered during an apparent sexual assault at the dry cleaners where she worked in Monroeville, Alabama. The community was stunned but … more
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'Saving Us:' A Climate Scientist’s Case
In “Saving Us,” Katharine Hayhoe suggests that the most important thing any of us can do to fight climate change is to discuss it with others.  She admits it can be hard to have a … more
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