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Readers Respond to Powell’s Limiting Sales of Andy Ngo’s Book

“Ngo is a troll and distorts facts. And Powell’s should carry his book in-store if they carry others like his.”

Powell’s Will Only Carry Andy Ngo’s Book Online, Not on Shelves, but Protest Continues

“We carry books that we find anywhere from simply distasteful or badly written, to execrable, as well as those that we treasure,” Powell’s said in a statement.

The Best Things We Read This Year

Some writing is good, maybe even great, but forgotten about as soon as it’s done. Other writing is read without much thought and then lodges itself in your brain for months afterward. This list is about the latter.

Five Wintry Novels to Read in Hibernation

Eowyn Ivey’s beloved debut novel, The Snow Child, sets magical realism in the harshness of winter. Born out of a Russian fairy tale, a drifting couple is brought together by a strange child who appears the day after a snow replica is built in a moment of joy. Neither the couple nor the reader knows if the child is real or imagined, only that she bears the weight of the mythology projected onto her.

Multnomah County Libraries Have Reopened for Pickup

Good news for those of us running out of content to consume during COVID-19: You can check out books from Multnomah County Library again, just, you know, without actually going into the library.

Five Newly Released Books You Must Read

If readers want to fantasize about falling in love over lukewarm coffee and barely legible spreadsheets, consider “Love Poems for the Office.”

Powell’s Has Permanently Closed Its Home and Garden Store

After closing its Portland International Airport store earlier this year, Powell’s Books has announced another closure. The book empire’s home and garden store is now closed for good.

A New Coffee Table Book Documents Portland’s Basketball Culture, One Hoop at a Time

This fall, the project has come to a head with the publication of a coffee table book called Buckets, an eclectic collection of the best pick-up hot spots and private H-O-R-S-E hideaways they’ve photographed so far.

Five Books by Indigenous Authors to Read This Week

Here Are the Five Most Anticipated Book Releases for November

As it happens, Margaret Atwood was a poet before she was a novelist. Her first collection, Double Persephone, was published in 1961 with just over 200 copies handset by Atwood herself, and it tends to be overlooked in conversations about her legacy and literary stardom. Dearly may just throw Atwood back into the pecking order of the genre, with writing that flits from interest to interest—the nature of zombies, the nature of aging, the nature of nature. Each is written with an internal clarity that belies Atwood’s decades in the spotlight.

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