Books In the wake of the runaway success of Robert Kirkman’s nearly decade-running The Walking Dead (and the critical and ratings success of its bar-raising AMC TV adaptation) More
Brandon Seifert & Lukas Ketner Witch Doctor
The doctor of supernaturopathic medicine is in.
Open Spaces: Voices From The Northwest
Wonks gone wild.
Books Edited by former natural resources lawyer Penny Harrison, Open Spaces magazine has always struck me as an odd duck, an uneasy hybrid of general interest journalism and policy wonkery, poetry and pro More
Paul Collins Murder of the Century
Dying to be famous.
Books It is a common thing, beneath the deafening noise of America’s Lohans and Kardashians, to hear tell that our culture—as a result of reality television, willful illiteracy, celebrity worship, the More
Thor Hanson Feathers
A Washington naturalist pens a book as light as his subject.
Books Conservation biologist Thor Hanson has crafted an ambitious work of natural history in Feathers (Basic Books, 336 pages, $25.99). “Ambitious” is often book reviewer shorthand for “an overly lo More
Larry Flynt and David Eisenbach One Nation Under Sex
The political history of presidents’ pants.
Books “How the private lives of presidents, first ladies and their lovers changed the course of American history,” promises the cover of One Nation Under Sex (Palgrave Macmillan, 304 pages, $25), whic More
David Goldfield America Aflame
Counting the costs of America’s “new birth of freedom.”
Books As new books commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Civil War assail readers like a latter-day Pickett’s Charge, at least one volume deserves to break Union lines as the rebels at Gettysburg More
Paul Allen Idea Man
You know what’s cool? A billion dollars.
Books Though the title of Paul Allen’s memoir is patently an attempt to define himself as a big-picture guy against Bill Gates’ myopic wonk, it is also a misnomer: Allen is not a man of ideas, but a More
David Foster Wallace The Pale King
Boredom ain’t boring.
Books Perhaps no American writer of the past 25 years has inspired more devotion, hope and resentment than David Foster Wallace. When his dense-prosed, block-paragraphed doorstopper, Infinite Jest, dropp More
Donovan Hohn Moby-Duck
The case of the shipwrecked rubber duckies.
Books Donovan Hohn was correcting high-school English papers one night, when one of his students brought to his attention the existence of thousands of plastic bath toys—ducks, beavers, frogs and turtl More
Portland's Goose Hollow Tracy J. Prince with Bud Clark
Books It is natural to assume that the topography of a city is fundamentally constant—that some half-distant ancestors found a promising patch of earth and proceeded to sow the seeds for what would ripen, as if inevitably, into the place we know well. But cities are things of tumult More
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