Winter 2023
Washington State Rising: Black Power on Campus in the Pacific Northwest
Review of Washington State Rising: Black Power on Campus in the Pacific Northwest, a book by Marc Arsell Robinson » More ...
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Winter 2023
Seek: How Curiosity Can Transform Your Life and Change the World
Review of Seek: How Curiosity Can Transform Your Life and Change the World, a book by Scott Shigeoka » More ...
Summer 2023
Inventing Idaho: The Gem State’s Eccentric Shape
Historical book by Keith C. Petersen » More ...
Spring 2021
What to read: Offerings from WSU Press
Here’s a round-up of reading recommendations featuring 11 titles curated by the staff at WSU Press.
Be Brave, Tah-hy!: The Journey of Chief Joseph’s Daughter by Jack R. Williams with illustrations by Jo Proferes (2012). Exquisitely illustrated and rich with depictions of Nimiipuu Dreamer culture, Tah-hy’s young voice narrates this novel about the harrowing 1877 flight of the Nez Perce.
Edge of Tomorrow: An Arctic Year by Sam Wright (1998). Living in a hand-built, 12-foot-by-12-foot cabin in the Brooks Range of Alaska 100 miles inside the Arctic Circle, Wright records his experiences and thoughts through seasonal changes, as he and his wife spend … » More …
Summer 2020
Q&A: Buddy Levy on the art and craft of the historical narrative
Buddy Levy likes to make the trip.
He specializes in historical narrative, paying meticulous attention to detail, writing cinematically, and traveling to the sites of the stories he’s researching—sometimes several hundred years after they’ve occurred. Travel, he says, is necessary for scene-setting and description, and can be more meaningful than archival research.
His seventh book, Labyrinth of Ice, started with a visit to Greenland in 2003. But he was there to write about something else. Levy was covering a race in which Erik Weihenmayer, the first blind man to summit Mount Everest, was competing, and he managed to convince Weihenmayer to let … » More …