Favorite Science Books

These classic titles are worth a read

Escaping America

It’s harder than you might think

The Horse’s Mouth

Writing Oregon

My state’s literature, in all its brilliance and depth

Emergencies in Spanish

When emergency calls and miscommunications collide

Time Marches On

(Except when it doesn’t)

In Memory of a Great Teacher

Glenn Hobson, 1955-2014

Boxes

A discussion about the future

Are Our Screams, Sighs, and Giggles Universal?

Two studies suggest yes and no

Overdosing on Communication

Whither Facebook, Myspace, etc.?

“The Terrorist, He’s Watching” by Wislawa Szymborska

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Keepers of the Old Ways

Eliot Stein on the people keeping cultural traditions alive

Above the River of Your Longing

Two new prompts

Casa Gorín

“The Purse-Seine” by Robinson Jeffers

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Island Royalty

A new biography of a Caribbean revolutionary

The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christopheby Marlene L. Daut

The Writer in the Family

The fiction of E. L. Doctorow gave a young man hope of connecting his father and his literary hero

Birthday Boy

“The Horses” by Ted Hughes

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Amy Wetsch

Life, magnified

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