An expansive exhibit at Oregon Contemporary, curated by the late, great Portland writer's son, opens up the speculative worlds she created and how she shaped them in words.
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November 10, 2025Amanda Waldroupe
“Safe,” “welcoming,” and “awesome” are a few words Portlanders and visitors alike used to describe downtown.
November 9, 2025Amanda Waldroupe
Melissa Febos and Lidia Yuknavitch also spoke at this year’s festival on their career successes and how they overcame bumps along the way.
November 9, 2025Amy Wang
Saturday's sold-out festival had something for everyone, from romantasy to biography, plus National Book Award winners and finalists.
November 9, 2025Amy Leona Havin
One writer's day at the festival included hearing from Jess Walter, Kristen Arnett, Emma Donoghue, Jennifer Perrine, and Tara Roberts.
November 8, 2025K.B. Dixon
As the Portland Book Festival and its visiting writers move into high gear, photographer K.B. Dixon portrays 15 homegrown winners of Oregon Book Awards.
November 7, 2025Amanda Waldroupe
The former Portlander's new book is both a memoir and a tutorial on the craft of writing.
November 6, 2025Amy Wang
In a nearly sold-out Portland event, Harris tells the audience, “Our democracy relies on our willingness to fight for it.”
November 5, 2025Amy Leona Havin
The founder of Freedom Reads, a nonprofit that puts libraries in prisons, says "sometimes one book will change your life.”
November 5, 2025Fran Gardner
Vang uses the saola — a gazelle-like creature hunted for eons by the Laotian Hmong — to braid strands of history, memory, ecology, and hope.
November 4, 2025Amy Leona Havin
The Spokane writer talks about journalism, paranoia, and being a hopeful satirist.
November 3, 2025Amy Wang
The National Geographic podcaster and author’s diving journey led to an exploration of her identity as a Black American descended from Africans seized by slave traders.
November 2, 2025David Sarasohn
The Harvard professor and prolific author argues that the daunting odds against amendment have prompted reformers to work through the courts or legislation.
October 31, 2025Marc Mohan
The Portland author's 560-page biography of the Hollywood icon has received rave reviews in The New York Times and The New Yorker.
October 29, 2025Ellen Clarke
Poet Willa Schneberg and photographer Jim Lommasson enlisted 20 senior poets for the project, a Cover to Cover event combining a reading and slide show.
October 29, 2025Amy Leona Havin
More than 100 writers and interviewers will discuss fiction, nonfiction, memoir, poetry, graphic novels, and books for young readers during the Nov. 8 festival.
October 27, 2025Bobby Bermea
The Portland artist talks about the allure of fantasy worlds, the ancient art of woodblock printing, and the long journey that has made her this year's winner of a prestigious international prize.
October 26, 2025Caitlin Nolan
In awarding the $25,000 prize to the Sri Lankan writer, the selectors called the novel “an extraordinary achievement in science fiction, and a titanic work of art.”
October 25, 2025Lincoln Chronicle
The new "wow factor" building increases the library’s size by half and is coming in on budget.
October 12, 2025Caitlin Nolan
The 18 short stories in the posthumous collection by the Portland author explore motherhood, the body, the natural world, violence, and death.
October 10, 2025Justin Duyao
The inaugural event drew scores of writers to panels, readings, and workshops for “a sort of rhizomatic network among communities,” says one organizer.
October 8, 2025Amy Leona Havin
Two Seattle writers, Claudia Rowe and translator Shelley Fairweather-Vega, round out the Northwest representation among award finalists.
October 7, 2025Fran Gardner
Each issue of the 8-year-old quarterly magazine focuses on a different state or region, with handsome photography, clean layout — and no ads.
October 2, 2025Bob Hicks
A gumshoe slips back and forth in time, trying to solve and prevent his own murder, in Gigi Little's witty new tale upending the conventions of the traditional detective novel.
September 26, 2025Amy Leona Havin
Authors appearing around the state include Justin Hocking and Daniel Pollack-Pelzner, and events will celebrate Katherine Dunn and Ursula K. Le Guin.
September 20, 2025Linda Ferguson
Interview: Oregon author Daniel Pollack-Pelzner talks about his new biography chronicling how the creator of the smash Broadway hit "Hamilton" reached impossible heights.
September 19, 2025Amanda Waldroupe
The program’s cancellation is among administrative actions leading to turmoil in Oregon’s arts, cultural, and literary organizations.
September 18, 2025Jim Redden
Recent layoffs by Powell’s and calls for help from other stores point to lingering effects of the pandemic shutdown, but other stores are doing just fine, thank you.
September 17, 2025Fran Gardner
Parr will talk goats — from the conquistadors to goat cheese to goat yoga — on Sept. 18 at Powell's Books on Hawthorne.
September 15, 2025Fran Gardner
The artist and consultant’s playful robots offer inspiration from Portland walls; now he turns his hand to monsters in the workplace in a volume on organizational transformation, scheduled to come out in December.
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