January 27 – 31, 2025
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Shelf Talkers: What the Booksellers Are Reading at Elliott Bay Book Company
Recommendations from One of Seattle’s Best Bookstores
How the Destruction of Roe v. Wade Undermines Fundamental American Rights
Becca Andrews in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On
When 007 Was a Woman: A WWII Novel About the Real Miss Moneypenny
Christine Wells in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On
How a Husband-and-Wife Have Strengthened Their Bond by Writing Psychological Thrillers
Nicci French in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On
The Soviet Union Might Be Dead, But the Consequences of Its Disastrous Collapse Continue to Haunt Us
Vladislav M. Zubok in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On
Why American Teachers’ Unions Are So Powerful
Michael T. Hartney in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On
Sweet Yet Sinister: How the Stroller Embodies Parental Hopes and Fears
Amanda Parrish Morgan on Maternal Idealization and Inadequacy
How Republicans Weaponized Lies to Incite Their Followers
Robert Draper on What Was Behind the January 6 Insurrection
“Elves Live Here.” On Modern Icelandic Elflore and the Shades of Belief
Nancy Marie Brown Considers the Stories Surrounding the Country’s “Hidden Folk”
“A Solemn Battle between Good and Evil.” Charles Sumner’s Radical, Compelling Message of Abolition
Timothy Shenk on the Senator from Massachusetts and the Birth of the Republican Party
The Most Important Poem of the 20th Century: On T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land” at 100
“The poem is such a key landmark that all modern poets know it, whether they swerve around it, crash into it, or attempt to assimilate it.”
A Dreamer of Worlds: Anna Badkhen Explores Ethiopa (and the Etymologies of Maps)
“What each map always implies is the observer, you.”
On the Rich, Hidden History of the Banjo
Kristina R. Gaddy on the Instrument’s Spiritual and Cultural Significance
How T.S. Eliot’s Therapeutic Practice Produced The Waste Land
David Barnes on a Poet, His Doctor, and the Making of a Literary Masterpiece
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