Crosscut articles of the past 10 days with the most clicks.
Crosscut articles of the past 10 days with the most reader comments.
Crosscut blog posts of the past 10 days with the most clicks.
Posted Sat, Nov 7, 8 a.m.
It's been a tough year for books and words, but one bright spot was the effort to bring back a Seattle book festival. Some saw the event as a great first effort, others as a fiasco.
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Posted Fri, Nov 6, 6 a.m.
A former Seattle Times colleague wonders what happened to the libertarian provocateur who used to engage him at their adjoining office doors.
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Posted Thu, Nov 5, 6 a.m.
In an age of seemingly too much information and not enough thinking, an argument for eschewing our culture's relentless optimism and seeing things as they really are.
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Posted Fri, Oct 30, 6 a.m.
As our Charter Membership Drive continues, a few words from a Crosscut Public Media contributor
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Posted Sun, Oct 18, noon
Seattle's iconic Pioneer Square bookstore might move. It could also close. Tough times bring tough choices for the bookseller, and the neighborhood it has helped to revive.
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Posted Fri, Oct 16, 6 a.m.
The author of a new book on Oregon's little-remembered disaster finds some enduring truths while researching the tragedy.
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Posted Thu, Oct 15, 6 a.m.
Brookings' Bruce Katz argues in a UW talk that this "metro" can help lead the U.S. toward a new, more prosperous economy.
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Posted Thu, Oct 8, 6 a.m.
A city that defines urban decline was once like Seattle, built on a dominant transportation industry. Can it become a laboratory for urban reinvention?
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Posted Fri, Oct 2, 6 a.m.
Newfoundland went centuries believing it could never exhaust its abundance of cod. Until it did. A reflection from the waters of Vashon Island and Mistaken Point.
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Posted Fri, Oct 2, 6 a.m.
The patron saint of livable, walkable cities is being invoked on both sides of the debate over Seattle's Viaduct solution. Would Jacobs be a tunnel supporter, or a surface option fan?
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Posted Thu, Oct 1, 6 a.m.
King County Executive Kurt Triplett, not worrying about getting elected, is "giving the work back" by telling hard truths. Ouch! We needed that.
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Posted Fri, Sep 25, 6 a.m.
The popular movie about Julia Child inspires our writer — not to cook with lots of butter, but to write longhand, and then use a typewriter and carbon paper. Tasty lessons result.
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Posted Wed, Sep 9, 9:24 p.m.
An art exhibit in Port Angeles displays creative responses to the Cascadia dream.
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Posted Thu, Sep 3, 6 a.m.
A new book on family-owned retailers provides a lens on the future of Seattle's neighborhood development. It's not just a matter of retail style; it's about values.
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Posted Thu, Aug 20, 6 a.m.
This month there's a chance to revisit the 1969 season in Seattle's Sicks Stadium. That Summer at Sicks was a major league wonder that was both legendary and never to be repeated.
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Posted Fri, Aug 14, 6 a.m.
Bush grew weary of Cheney and his bad advice, as often happens with Presidents and their running mates. The code is to suffer in silence, but when did Cheney ever think he needed to obey custom?
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Posted Fri, Jul 10, 6 a.m.
The former reporter and Olympia resident sets his books in small towns in Western Washington, creating indelible characters with rare abilities to see hidden things
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Posted Fri, Jun 19, 6 a.m.
It's time we rediscovered John Calvin, the seminal thinker from whom so much American history and religion flows. A good place to start is with novelist Marilynne Robinson, a modern Calvinist.
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Posted Wed, Jun 3, 6 a.m.
A Puget Sound beachcomber and U.W. oceanographer has expanded our understanding of the oceans by studying driftwood and rubber duckies. Here's an unbeatable "beach read" for the summer.
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Posted Tue, May 19, 6 a.m.
Susan Hildreth, filling the big shoes of Deborah Jacobs, has a good grasp of the complex political environment she's entering. Libraries now have many new missions and lots of bosses.
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Posted Wed, Oct 28, 3:38 p.m.
News at the company isn't good, and that's for those "lucky" enough to still be there
MOREPosted Fri, Oct 23, 6 a.m.
A new Seattle book festival launches this weekend in Columbia City, amid bad news for Elliott Bay Books and word of a new fest planned for next year.
MOREPosted Sat, Sep 26, noon
Tom Tomorrow's timely take on city politics is in a new book for kids
MOREPosted Mon, Sep 21, 3 p.m.
With no political agenda, Po Bronson co-authored a new bestseller about how children learn. But NurtureShock quickly became caught up in a Rush Limbaugh screed about race and popular culture.
MOREPosted Wed, Aug 26, 3:34 p.m.
When the Seattle Library closes for a week next Monday, down goes the valuable website as well. Not smart.
MOREPosted Sat, Jul 25, noon
In praise of a discovery, a French novel written by an American about Germany
MOREPosted Sat, Jul 18, 9:11 a.m.
When Amazon whisked away Orwell's 1984, something made this writer want to hang onto those things with paper pages and covers
MOREPosted Wed, Jul 15, 9:25 p.m.
Among the pleasures of reading books is the way they can become social objects, conversational ice-breakers
MOREPosted Sun, Jun 7, 8:03 p.m.
It's one thing to doubt the existence of God, but this?
MOREPosted Sat, Jun 6, 10:45 a.m.
The wilderness champion tried to find a middle course between pristine preservation and getting more boots (and votes) on trails.
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