Elliott Bay Book Company hosted a reading co-sponsored by UW EarthLab and the Washington Sea Grant on Jan. 14 in celebration ...

If you click on links we provide, we may receive compensation. Author and international whitewater river guide Bridget Crocker shares the books that helped inspire her new memoir, 'The River's ...

From “experimental archaeology” to the mysterious appeal of exploration, the wide-ranging subjects detailed in these titles captivated Smithsonian magazine’s science contributors this year Joe Spring, ...

On November 20, 1959, at a pier in Brooklyn, the writer Peter Matthiessen boarded the M.V. Venimos, a freighter bound for Iquitos, a port town deep in the Peruvian Amazon. He was fresh off the ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Take a virtual tour of our newest exhibition Nature of the Book! The exhibition explores books of the hand-press era through the myriad natural ...

Charlie English begins “The CIA Book Club” by describing a 1970s technical manual: a dull cover, as uninviting as anything. A book that practically begs you to put it back on the shelf and move on.

In 2017, Yiyun Li’s 16-year-old son, Vincent, died by suicide. Nearly seven years later, his younger brother, James, then 19, also took his own life. With her second memoir, Li examines the ...

A Book Review art director selects the book jackets that surprised him, delighted him and stayed with him this year. A Book Review art director selects the book jackets that surprised him, delighted ...

“True Nature,” a new biography, chronicles the many lives and pursuits of the writer Peter Matthiessen. Nonfiction “True Nature,” a new biography, chronicles the many lives and pursuits of the writer ...

In a hard year—and when, recently, have we had one we’d consider easy?—books can be a lifeline and a balm, a place to retreat and regain our grounding. Among the many entertaining, delightful, ...

Photography’s most compelling voices this year looked backward, outward and inward to re-examine how images shape our understanding of the natural world, cultural rituals and the roots of the medium ...