Books As a defense mechanism, the third edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders was equal parts identification and repression. Having weathered a decade of attacks from the ... More
May 15, 2013 12:01 am by MATTHEW KORFHAGE
Books As a defense mechanism, the third edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders was equal parts identification and repression. Having weathered a decade of attacks from the ... More
May 15, 2013 12:01 am by MATTHEW KORFHAGE
Books Anyone who has lost a weekend pursuing their heritage through the waggling leaves of Ancestry.com understands the dynamic driving C.B. Bernard’s Chasing Alaska: A Portrait of the Last Frontier T ... More
May 8, 2013 12:01 am by MARTIN CIZMAR
Books Becky Ohlsen’s Walking Portland keeps up a blistering pace through Portland’s gridded streets while stopping at every worthy watering hole and potential Instagram selfie backdrop along the way ... More
May 1, 2013 12:01 am by BRANDON WIDDER
Books “Wipe that fucking smile off your face.” So begins the new book by Augusten Burroughs, a darkly comedic and sincere self-help book titled This Is How: Surviving What You Think You Can’t (Picad ... More
Apr 24, 2013 12:01 am by KAITIE TODD
Books Few cartoonists could pull off Matt Bors’ new book, Life Begins at Incorporation (230 pages, $20). Not because of the cartoons—in shape and tone, the Portland-based artist’s style is so simi ... More
Apr 17, 2013 12:01 am by MARTIN CIZMAR
Books Like any Portlander, you’ve no doubt already planned your survival tactics for the impending zombie apocalypse—weapons, allies, a practical yet fashionable ensemble. But how long would canne ... More
Apr 17, 2013 12:01 am by PENELOPE BASS
Books As if cat memes haven’t vociferously enough taken over the interwebbed world, they’re digging their claws into classic literature. Pride and Prejudice and Kitties (Skyhorse, $16.95, 195 page ... More
Apr 10, 2013 12:01 am by ENID SPITZ
Books Aggro Rag Freestyle Mag! Plywood Hoods Zines ’84-’89: The Complete Collection (Stovepiper Books Media, 443 pages, $24.43) is radical, and not in political or mathematical terms. Rather, this i ... More
Apr 3, 2013 12:01 am by BRANDON WIDDER
Books Amy Stewart’s The Drunken Botanist (Algonquin, 400 pages, $19.95) is a quirky exploration of the plants behind every drink menu. Part field guide for invested gardeners or bartenders, part 1,000 ... More
Mar 27, 2013 12:01 am by ENID SPITZ
Books Fire-and-forget missiles are launched and then left to their own devices, whizzing toward inevitable destruction. The veteran authors of Fire and Forget: Short Stories From the Long War (Da Capo ... More
Mar 20, 2013 12:01 am by ENID SPITZ
Books-x On the cynical face of it, it is unsurprising that Tom Rachman’s debut novel, The Imperfectionists (The Dial, 288 pages, $15), has been a darling among the newspaper and magazine press over this ... More
Jan 19, 2011 12:00 am by MATTHEW KORFHAGE
Books-x On the cynical face of it, it is unsurprising that Tom Rachman’s debut novel, The Imperfectionists (The Dial, 288 pages, $15), has been a darling among the newspaper and magazine press over this ... More
Jan 19, 2011 12:00 am by MATTHEW KORFHAGE
