Winter 2021
How Virginia Woolf’s library came to WSU
Washington State University’s collection of titles from Virginia and Leonard Woolf is among the most extensive in the world. » More ...
Literature
Winter 2021
Sugar Birds
Review of the novel Sugar Birds by Cheryl Grey Bostrom » More ...
Winter 2021
Bad Medicine
Review of novel Bad Medicine by James B. Cohoon » More ...
Winter 2021
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special COLLECTIONS
Taking a stroll through Washington State University’s voluminous archival collections is a rare treat. » More ...
Summer 2021
Briefly noted
Books by Washington State University alumni and faculty » More ...
Spring 2021
Sins of the Bees
Review of Annie Lampman's novel Sins of the Bees » More ...
Spring 2021
Remote: Finding Home in the Bitterroots
DJ Lee
Oregon State University Press: 2020
Places can possess us. Think of the stubbled, ochre hills of the Palouse in the chaffy light of October. No place possesses me more than the landscape defined by two rivers, the Lochsa and the Selway, where the rumpled land of the Bitterroot Mountains lies in the V between them.
Nearly 20 years ago, I told the writer DJ Lee, a Regents Professor of » More …
Summer 2020
Salmon Eaters to Sagebrushers: Washington’s Lost Literary Legacy
Review of Salmon Eaters to Sagebrushers: Washington’s Lost Literary Legacy » More ...
Summer 2020
Labyrinth of Ice: The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition
Buddy Levy
St. Martin’s Press: 2019
Lt. Adolphus W. Greely, commander of the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition, assessed the situation from the edge of the ice floe upon which he and his men were stranded.
It was dire.
They were adrift on a raft of ice, and it was 11 degrees Fahrenheit—cold for the time of year but not as low as the sub-zero temperatures they regularly experienced during their two years of exploration and data collection, … » More …
Spring 2020
Mao’s Kisses: A novel of June 4, 1989
Alex Kuo
Redbat Books, 2019
Deng Xiaoping learned to play bridge in the early 1950s. Little did he realize that appropriating state transportation to take him and his team to tournaments would result in the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and his being transported far from Beijing for reeducation through manual labor.
But Deng wasn’t just a Goren Prize-winning bridge player. He was, after his rehabilitation, China’s paramount leader during a time of civil crisis. The spring of 1989 brought … » More …