The KUOW Book Club read "Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler" by Susana M. Morris this month. I'm your reading guide Katie Campbell. Morris joined me on Zoom recently to talk ...

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Books can be a refuge from (waves arms) all this, even when they take you deeper into the darkness of 2025. There is a grace in the relationship between book and reader, with nothing but your eyes and ...

In the Jewish calendar, the holiest day of the year is Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement—Oct. 2 this year. It is a fast day. Observant Jews eat and drink nothing between twilight on the eve of Yom ...

Former Vice President Kamala Harris' memoir of her failed 2024 campaign for the Oval Office skewers some of the nation's most prominent Democrats — including former President Joe Biden — offers her ...

Jennette McCurdy knows a thing or two about punchy book titles. The Nickelodeon alum and bestselling author of memoir “I’m Glad My Mom Died” will return in January with her debut novel “Half His Age,” ...

2025 marks 17 years since Suzanne Collins debuted the brutal world of The Hunger Games and its heroic rebel leader, Katniss Everdeen. With the release of a new prequel, Sunrise on the Reaping, now is ...

“The Feeling of Iron,” by Giaime Alonge, follows two Holocaust survivors on a quest for revenge. By Lea Carpenter Lea Carpenter is a novelist, screenwriter and lecturer in law at Columbia Law School.

When covid-19 hit, Jamieson Webster, a practicing psychoanalyst, volunteered as a palliative psychologist caring for the dying. Her hospital, like many, was divided into zones according to risk of ...