• 'My family is enough': Jamilah Lemieux on being a 'Black. Single. Mother.'

  As a culture critic, Lemieux has spent years pushing back against the stereotypes and stigma that follow single mothers. Her new book blends her own memoir with the stories of 21 other Black women.

  • Tonya Mosley
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  This historian dug up the hidden history of 'amateur' blackface in America

  In her new book, Darkology, historian Rhae Lynn Barnes writes about how blackface and minstrel shows became one of the most popular forms of entertainment in 19th- and 20th-century America.

  • Terry Gross

• Understanding all that the word citizenship entails

  The definition of what it means to be a U.S. citizen has evolved both legally and socially -- a new book looks at who gets to claim citizenship.

  • Justine Kenin
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  'Dopamine Kids' explains why children crave screens and helps them enjoy life instead

  A mom and science writer offers an operating manual for parents grappling with kids' screen use and cravings for sweets.

  • Alicia Garceau
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  Why you should judge a book by its cover, according to a PNW designer

  You know the phrase: Don't judge a book by its cover. I could not disagree more.

  • Katie Campbell
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  KUOW, Seattle Public Library Book Talks continue with 'Coast Salish punk' Sasha LaPointe

  The KUOW Book Club is continuing our series of live author talks in partnership with the Seattle Public Library with writer and artist Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe. We'll be reading her celebrated essay collection "Thunder Song."

  • Katie Campbell
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  Author Coll Thrush interprets PNW history through the wreckage of colonialism

  The KUOW Book Club read "Wrecked: Unsettling Histories from the Graveyard of the Pacific" by Coll Thrush in February. Thrush joined KUOW's Katie Campbell live at Seattle Central Library Thursday to talk about how shipwrecks brought settlers and Indigenous peoples suddenly, violently together — and how we’ve made sense of time and space through the wreckage.

  • Katie Campbell
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  This novel about family drama is so good you may want to re-read it immediately

  Allegra Goodman's new novel is called This Is Not About Us, but critic Maureen Corrigan says that title is coy: Readers are bound to see aspects of themselves and their families in these pages.

  • Maureen Corrigan
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  Thomas Mallon's 'Fellow Travelers' is a must for readers and Seattle Opera fans alike

  Reading Thomas Mallon's 2007 novel, "Fellow Travelers," I couldn't help but think it was always destined to become an opera.

  • Katie Campbell
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  Years ago, novelist Tayari Jones snuck into a writing class. It changed her life

  Jones' new novel, Kin, is set in 1950s Louisiana and Atlanta, and tells the story of two young women who grow up next door to each other without their mothers.

  • Tonya Mosley

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