by Sarah Hutchins | May 1, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, NW Setting, Travel
Jaime de Angulo, born in Spain and raised in France, became a legend in California, particularly around the Big Sur as a self-trained linguist and ethnologist, a novelist, and a poet. He traveled around California learning native languages and stories and even studied...
by Sarah Hutchins | Apr 25, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Poetry, Portland Authors
Sunset in Wonderland “I am always doing this. Walking around the old neighborhood, always sixteen, moody and stealing cigarettes” (36). I read Wonderland by native-Portlander Matthew Dickman. I read not about a Portlandia-version. I read about a place...
by Sarah Hutchins | Apr 12, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Science & Technology, Social Science
It would be easy to presume that Will Storr’s book is as cutesy as its title, Selfie: How We Became So Self-Obsessed and What It’s Doing to Us, but that would be a mistake. Storr, a renowned long-form journalist, takes the reader on a journey from Ancient Greece to...
by Sarah Hutchins | Mar 29, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Education, Parenting & Families, LGBTQ+, Social Science
Transgender History: The Roots of Today’s Revolution is a more compelling title than US Transgender History 101. Susan Stryker, a transsexual woman and an associate professor of gender and women’s studies at the University of Arizona, packs a lesson plan into an...
by Sarah Hutchins | Mar 26, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Film, TV & Theater
If a news station discovers there have been two local shootings, but they only have the resources to send one team at that precise moment, how do the producer, assignment editor, and reporters decide which murder to prioritize? How does the victim and culprit’s age,...