Books

Race & Identity

Essays on life, lineage, and the inheritance of whiteness

White women explore epistemic injustice and healing wisdom

Arts & Life

Seattle's chief librarian is moving on: What will he remember, and be remembered for?

The Seattle Public Library’s celebrated chief librarian is about to leave a big hole in the community. Marcellus Turner has served the library for a decade, earning accolades for expanding technology and digital services, especially during the pandemic.

Arts & Life

Scott Turow reflects on his dual roles as a best-selling fiction author and practicing attorney

‘Some speak of the nobility of the law. Stern has not always found that to be true. Too much of the grubby bone shop, the odor of the abattoir, emanates from every criminal courtroom.’

February 3rd | Is this romance novel about a Seattle public radio station about us?

An apparently fictional romance story from a former KUOW employee is an ode to public radio with a little tough love for the industry. A discussion on what the Biden Administration plans for immigration, landlords weigh in on how the eviction moratorium is impacting them, and we somehow find a moment to take a deep breath thanks to a soundscape from Eastern Washington.

Bridging the American divide: A search for civic responsibility

An exploration of unsettling shifts and signs of hope in word and song

Science

Neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett discusses ‘that big grey blob’ between your ears

If you’ve ever found yourself wishing you could better understand how the human brain works, then this talk is just for you.

Arts & Life

Pandemic reading ideas: Author Donna Miscolta shares some books she admires

‘We won’t unforget all we’ve been made to stuff back into our darkest places and sew shut.’

Technology

Jill Lepore on the ethically challenged birth of the computer age

'These men are going out to build a machine to understand how humans think and feel and would behave, and they don’t understand their wives and they don’t understand their children.'

Where a booming oil market meets wind and solar alternatives, geopolitics happens

‘Peak oil, at this point, it looks like it’s around 2030, which used to sound far away, but it isn’t anymore.’

From the Black Panthers to the No-Cop Co-op, the long history of American mutual aid

When systems fail marginalized groups, mutual aid is a way for them to take collective action and make change.