Bookshelf

Portland Monthly’s Best Books of 2025

Our favorite fiction and nonfiction, children’s books, cartoons, and comics of the year by Oregon authors.

Bookshelf

Local Authors on the 2025 Portland Book Festival Lineup

Jonathan Hill, Emma Pattee, Leah Sottile, and Leni Zumas share who they’re looking forward to seeing at this year’s fest.

things to do

Also: a new Jeff Buckley doc, and other things to do in Portland this week.

things to do

Also: Jim Henson’s Labyrinth: In Concert, and other things to do in Portland this week.

Book Review

Author of the popular Substack newsletter Morning Person, Leslie Stephens takes aim at the wellness industrial complex in her debut novel.

Books

Through her essays and fiction, the Portland author elucidates trans and queer narratives, fleshing out the experience of being othered.

Pomo Picks

The Portland Monthly team shares the non-pandemic content keeping us sane this week.

Profile

For proof, read the Portland-raised writer's staggeringly smart new book, Survival Math.

02/26/2019 By Fiona McCann

The Essentials

Tom Hanks and Abbi Jacobson come to town, Tank and the Bangas play the Roseland, and the Oregon Symphony mashes up Tchaikovsky and Drake.

Books & Talks

In her new book, Good and Mad, the journalist argues that female fury is exactly what our country needs right now.

The Essentials

Pop star Frankie Simone drops her debut EP, Soweto Kinch plays genre-crossing jazz, and Masha Gessen talks straight about Trump and Putin.

READ 'EM AND EAT

From the Pollan Family cookbook to a guide to cooking with non-wheat grains, Portland will draw some serious culinary talent in the coming weeks.

10/27/2014 By Anna Loh