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Animal Scientist Dr. Temple Grandin on the Human-Animal Bond

Click to view larger Temple Grandin's autism spurred her work designing more humane equipment for cattle slaughterhouses; in her new book she uncovers the emotional lives of animals domesticated and wild. Photo courtesy Harcourt. February 12 marked t ...

March 6th, 2009 - Robin Lindley
Stories of torment, stories of hope

Click to view all images Photo courtesy of National Cancer Institute Photo by Deborah Feingold Medicine is storytelling," writes acclaimed cancer specialist and now bestselling writer Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of "The Emperor of Maladies: ...

January 6th, 2011 - Robin Lindley
Before Hitler became Hitler

Most biographers have attributed Adolf Hitler's rabid anti-Semitism and hyper-nationalism to his experience in the First World War. With little evidence on Hitler's war record, historians have relied heavily on Hitler's account in "Mei ...

April 7th, 2011 - Robin Lindley
Following a trail of blood back to the 1600s

We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language.--?Joyce Carol Oates In his Jan. 21, 2006, State of the Union address, President George W. Bush called for "legislation to prohibit the most egregious abuses of medical research [including] ...

July 28th, 2011 - Robin Lindley
Where the sidewalk ends

Click to view all images George, Roz and Elizabeth Chast Photo and art courtesy of Roz Chast In her new graphic memoir, “Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?” (Bloomsbury), acclaimed New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast shares the poignant and often da ...

July 16th, 2014 - Robin Lindley
Back to mountain wartime

Click to view larger Local author Ivan Doig uses the story of a Montana football team that didn't return home after World War II as the basis for his newest work, The Eleventh Man. In his epic new novel, The Eleventh Man, celebrated Seattle writer Iv ...

March 16th, 2009 - Robin Lindley
Most Livable Region?

Click to view larger Knute Berger's "Mossback" column at Seattle Weekly and Crosscut.com has allowed him to poke at the city's complacent self-conceits. In the late 19th century, newcomers to the Northwest derided the early settlers as ...

April 16th, 2009 - Robin Lindley
Change Agent: Julia Pritt

Click to view larger Deborah Cushing, executive director of Washington Women in Need, and Kathy Young, program director, flank a picture of WWIN founder Julia Pritt. Photo by Robin Lindley Women with limited incomes often delay necessary medical treatment ...

September 5th, 2007 - Robin Lindley
On the meaning of Obama

Click to view larger Last November the country, and the globe, experienced something phenomenal: the remaking of the political and cultural landscapes. Author and scholar Charles Johnson believes we are entering a pivotal moment in history. In a recent em ...

June 4th, 2009 - Robin Lindley
Closing Argument

Click to view larger First Manson, now Oswald: Prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi gained notoriety with Helter Skelter, his true-crime book on Charles Manson. Now, after years of work, he's written a 1,600-plus page book entitled Reclaiming History, which d ...

July 25th, 2007 - Robin Lindley