Is it shameful, or sensible, to put down a book you don’t enjoy? Three little letters, and social media, have turbocharged a longstanding debate. By Erik Piepenburg Reading recommendations from ...

Yûki Igarashi’s adaptation of Osamu Tezuka’s influential manga is a conservative (if impressively animated) reimagining that dulls the source material’s pioneering elements London’s 90s art scene ...

A prophecy in a Rio favela, a thesis typed two fingers at a time, a brain tumour found months before the deadline. Here is what Jason Arday's memoir says Freecouver is a book on great things to do in ...

Portland’s weekend forecast flips the script: onshore winds shove wildfire smoke east of the Cascades, bringing moderate to healthy air in the Valley and Coast. Temps ease into the 80s, with a ...

June 23, 2026 • Facts by day, fiction by night! At the end of a long day in the newsroom, many of our journalists head home and escape into novels of all types.

August 4, 2026 • Daniel Mason's new novel is a spin on Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, in which academics collide with locals — and a few seductive fairies — in the woods of Vermont.