September 9, 2024
‘Warrior Librarian’ Tracie D. Hall doesn't tell people to be quiet, but to speak up against censorship that threatens learning and access to information for all.
August 7, 2024
These authors write lavish fiction about the real Washington, thorns and all.
June 14, 2024
Whether you need a book to dive into on your next plane ride, a podcast for a long walk or a TV show for a rainy day, UW alumni are ready to keep you company this summer.
May 24, 2024
The UW and UW Alumni Association present Art Wolfe, '75, with the Alumnus Summa Laude Dignatus, the highest honor bestowed upon a UW graduate.
May 9, 2024
Welcome to the spring 2024 issue of Viewpoint. As long as I can remember, I have been fascinated by the power of language. I was the shy kid who never spoke up in class, the weird kid pulled out of class to attend speech therapy, the lone Black kid afraid to open my mouth because...
May 3, 2024
UW Press celebrates "Aiiieeeee!" and a 50-year legacy of Asian American Literature.
April 30, 2024
In a city known for its literature, Tom Eykemans and Jayme Yen created a festival that celebrates the beauty of books.
February 24, 2024
E.J. Koh’s debut novel affirms her place among powerful American storytellers.
January 8, 2024
Ned Blackhawk's book about Native Americans in U.S. history won the National Book Award for its enlightening take on "rediscovering" America.
December 23, 2023
"The Boys in the Boat" is now a major motion picture. How well do you know your UW rowing history?
November 26, 2023
Haidee Merritt charms readers with her droll and deprecating illustrations about Type 1 diabetes.
November 24, 2023
Author Daniel James Brown recalls writing "The Boys in the Boat": "Anxiety quickly gave way to exhilaration."
October 27, 2023
A new podcast produced in partnership with the UW is dedicated to humanities research and thought.
June 20, 2023
Let Antoinette Wills show you around the UW's campus.
June 4, 2023
Blending her own story with tales of climate crisis negotiations, Brianna Craft shows us the world in her memoir.
Timothy Egan’s latest book, “A Fever in the Heartland," centers on the rise and undoing of D.C. Stephenson, a grand dragon of the KKK
May 28, 2023
Nurse, professor and advocate Josephine Ensign walks readers through the history of Seattle's "Skid Road."
The Chihuly Workshop has produced a photo-rich book, “The Boathouse: The Artist’s Studio of Dale Chihuly,” to tell the story of a building with UW ties.
February 25, 2023
New Yorker cartoonist Olivia de Recat captures relationships in her book ‘Drawn Together.’
February 23, 2023
Emile Pitre captures the story of decades of activism at the Office of Minority Affairs & Diversity in his new book.
Peter Bacho wrote a love letter to Seattle with “Uncle Rico's Encore,” a book he says he “had to write.”
November 26, 2022
Bryn Nelson followed his love for animals and science to become both a microbiologist and the writer of a book on human feces.
September 9, 2022
Quintard Taylor tells the stories of Seattle’s small, but influential Black community.
August 31, 2022
Ada Limón, the 24th poet laureate of the United States, gives UW Magazine a glimpse into her process.
July 22, 2022
The 1998 drama graduate received the nation's highest honor in poetry.
March 5, 2022
While working on her doctorate, Monica De La Torre, ’16, studied the Yakima Valley's Radio Cadena. She shares their stories in “Feminista Frequencies."
March 4, 2022
Actor Mickey Rowe's book chronicles his journey from a legally blind self-described outcast to the hero of his own story.
January 31, 2022
Player-turned-agent Ryan Minkoff’s second book, “Nora’s Hockey Dream,” pays homage to his sister and all the girls who love hockey.
December 4, 2021
A new book finally shines a spotlight on Paul Hayden Kirk, ’37, who set the standard for Northwest modernist architecture.
November 19, 2021
Poet Jane Wong isn’t afraid to lay her emotions bare as she explores ways beyond the written page to reach audiences.
September 4, 2021
‘Boys in the Boat’ author Daniel James Brown’s new book depicts the heroism of World War II-era Japanese Americans.
Two decades after Tom Stockley and his wife, Peggy, perished in a plane crash, their daughters curate a new book of his eating pleasures.
August 31, 2021
The national champion ’91 football team inspires the first UW Press book on Husky sports.
June 10, 2021
Compared to changes that add, those that subtract are harder to think of. The removal of a bridge in the Bay Area illustrates how sometimes, less is more.
June 3, 2021
The story of the greatest coach in Husky football history and how he led the 1991 team to the national championship is the subject of a new book.
May 11, 2021
Cecilia Aragon’s memoir, “Flying Free,” is for “anybody who has been discouraged all their life,” she says.
March 4, 2021
Instead, Thoft uses the P.I. skills she learned to write her award-winning detective novels featuring hard-nosed private eye Fina Ludlow.
March 3, 2021
With the city changing rapidly, Ron Chew set out to write about one of its beloved communities. It’s a story only he could tell.
January 11, 2021
To date, more than 1,600 readers have joined the UW Alumni Book Club, representing alumni from every college and school across all three campuses.
December 16, 2020
Britt East’s book “A Gay Man’s Guide to Life” provides realistic ways for gay men to deal with homophobia and live a good life.
In “Unsettled Ground: The Whitman Massacre and Its Shifting Legacy in The American West,” historian Cassandra Tate, ’86, ’88, ’95, revisits a conflict that left 13 settlers dead.
December 9, 2020
Norman B. Rice’s timing couldn’t have been better for his new book, “Gaining Public Trust: A Profile of Civic Engagement.”
September 16, 2020
A book by UW Tacoma Assistant Professor Emily Thuma won the 2020 Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Studies.
August 4, 2020
Astronomer Emily Levesque’s new book shares the wonder of stargazing—and the adventures it’s taken her on.
June 10, 2020
A writer faces frustration with the release of her first work of fiction during a pandemic.
In "Salmon Sisters," Emma Teal Laukitis, ’18, and Claire Neaton share stories from their father's fishing vessel and their clean, elegant approach to food.
June 4, 2020
Like a good friendship, your relationship with a book can become richer as you get to know it better.
March 10, 2020
Scientists knew Mount St. Helens would come back to life after the 1980 eruption, but as a new book shows, its resilience still blew them away.
December 26, 2019
No one else could have written "Surviving the Peace," a new book by Peter Lippman, ’95, after decades of grassroots connections to the people of the Balkans.
September 28, 2019
Charles Johnson rounded up 11 of his “Bedtime Stories” from more than a decade—and added a new one—for a collection titled “Night Hawks: Stories.”
June 2, 2019
A new book by UW faculty explores anxiety-provoking topics ranging from food safety to mobile phones and bedbugs.
March 29, 2019
A new book about Seattle is an engaging history lesson for newcomers to the region and a juicy replay for old timers.
March 1, 2019
Tearjerkers and epic female-driven novels have earned Kristin Hannah, '83, an international following.
July 2, 2018
Secret Charles-Ford's experience of having a loved one dealing with PTSD inspired her to write the book “Vietnam, PTSD, and Therapy: Survived All That!”
Biology professor Jim Kenagy takes in the surprising beauty of ordinary life in wild places.
March 3, 2018
Best-selling feminist author Claire Dederer, ’93, on growing up grunge, creating a literary canon for the Northwest, and bad men who create great art.
September 27, 2017
A quirky and thought-provoking new book from an iSchool professor.
September 20, 2017
“No Apparent Distress” by Rachel Pearson is a terrifying, compelling and excellent book about the American health care system.
March 1, 2016
David Shields, author, essayist and UW English professor, takes the New York Times to task in his book, "War Is Beautiful."
September 1, 2015
The University of Washington's press dates back to Edmond Meany's 1915 book on the governors of the state and territory.
September 1, 2014
Louise Little is a University Book Store icon. She started 34 years ago as a cashier and is now CEO. But it all started when she read Nancy Drew as a kid.
March 1, 2014
Teresa Tamura captures poignant stories of hardship from a World War II relocation center in her book "Minidoka: An American Concentration Camp."
The first time I tried to climb Mount Everest was in the spring of 1987. It was a very different mountain then from the swarmed-over scene it’s become today.
December 1, 2013
Ivan Doig's tales of the West have made him one of America's top authors.
December 1, 2012
Catching up with Kathleen Flenniken, ’88, a civil engineer turned poet. Recently she was appointed Washington State Poet Laureate for 2012–2014.
September 1, 2011
To commemorate the University of Washington’s 150 years of discovery and inquiry, the 2011-12 Common Book is The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist by Richard Feynman.
June 1, 2011
Books such as "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" are part of a crime novel tradition dating back to at least 1965 in Scandinavia—a tradition Andrew Nestingen, associate professor of Scandinavian Studies, has followed for years.
December 1, 2010
The Henry Art Gallery, UW Libraries and UW Press are teaming up to bring the beauty of the Seattle Camera Club to the public.
“What Work Is” was featured in the 2010 UW Common Book, You Are Never Where You Are. Since 2006 the UW has chosen one book for all freshmen to read.
September 1, 2009
Marilynne Robinson, ’68, ’77, has authored three novels, each of which is regarded as a major contribution to American letters.
March 1, 2009
When Kevin Rupprecht, '06, accepted the job of principal at Forks High School, he didn't realize he was signing on to be a minor celebrity as well.
Ellen Dissanayake is working in a field she invented: evolutionary aesthetics, the study of art-making as an innate human behavior that helps us survive.
Ellen Dissanayake came up with a paradigm-changing theory: Art-making evolved as a behavior that contained advantages for human survival-and those advantages went far beyond what Charles Darwin ever imagined.
December 1, 2006
To celebrate the literary achievements of our UW community, the editors of Columns asked 15 faculty, alumni and book publishing professionals to help choose 100 outstanding books by 100 UW authors.
Kathleen Fearn-Banks once worked in TV, and now has written the dictionary on an important part of its history.
For a long time we’ve wanted to celebrate the creative power of the University of Washington by presenting 100 top books by 100 UW authors. While the idea sounds great on paper, coming up with the final list was no easy task. What follows is an editor’s diary of the selection process.
June 1, 2006
“Mountains Beyond Mountains” was named the UW's first-ever "common book." Every member of the incoming freshman class will be reading the book this summer, and thinking, talking and writing about it this fall.
December 1, 2003
Michele Torrey, '88, was having trouble finding books for her three teen-age sons. She decided to fix that problem by writing one herself.
June 1, 2002
For more and more workers, the American Dream is just a mirage, say the authors of a new book.
June 1, 2001
Taking the “if you want something done, do it yourself” mentality her parents instilled in her, Carol Bolt, ’94, a Seattle artist, wrote The Book of Answers.
December 1, 1998
The early Christians weren't all martyrs and they weren't all poor, says a UW sociologist whose book sheds new light on the rise of the Christianity.
June 1, 1993
UW alumnus and retired UW lecturer Richard (Dick) Carbray, '44, '51, has written a new book titled "Prophets of Human Solidarity."
March 1, 1993
"The challenge for America is how to live in peace with its different people. If that's not solved, the country is really in trouble."
September 1, 1991
A former policewoman, Ann Rule began writing true-detective crime in 1968, after a divorce left her with four children to support.
June 1, 1991
UW English Professor Charles Johnson, is holding steady through the months of accolades that have followed winning the 1990 National Book Award in fiction.
March 1, 1991
Charles Johnson, UW professor of English, received the 1990 National Book Award for Middle Passage.