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Clubhouse, Spotify, and the invention of talking Today's best articles Daily business briefing Solving COVID newsletter It was only a short while after Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1876 that people started to wonder if the whole "talking to each other" thing was really such a good idea. "It is my heart-warmed and world-embracing Christmas hope and aspiration that all of us, the high, the low, the rich, the poor, the admired, the despised, the loved, the hated, the civilized, the savage … may eventually be gathered together in a heaven of everlasting rest and peace and ...

We're taking a look back at some our top picks from 2020 that either showcase the people, history and culture that define the area or were written by local award-winning/best-selling authors.

One of my first bosses, the publisher of a digital media startup, sat just a few rows of desks away from me. She blended in fairly easily. The only thing that made her stick out was that her leather jacket, unlike the ones some of my co-workers wore to work, was custom made, with the words “suffering from realness” written on the back. Work sucks on principle, but it often sucks specifically because of bosses. A 2018 poll from Monster (the job search site, not the energy drink) found that 76 percent of Americans leave their jobs because of “toxic” bosses, whom they described as power-...

The Pandemic in America Lawrence Wright’s exhaustive and historically important account of the COVID-19 crisis contains the surprising revelation that Dr. Deborah Birx, the coördinator of the White House Coronavirus Task Force under Donald Trump, spent much of the past year travelling through the United States and cajoling governors, public-health officials, hospitals, universities, and others to impose masking orders and other measures to help stop the spread of the disease (“The Plague Year,” January 4th & 11th). Birx and her colleague Irum Zaidi covered twenty-five thousand miles i...

6 new paperbacks for reading list By Moira Macdonald, The Seattle Times Published: January 24, 2021, 6:04am Share: "A Beautiful Crime" by Christopher Bollen. (Harper) It’s a new year, and time for hope and self-examination and … maybe some new books? Visit your local bookstore and wish them well for 2021 — and don’t miss that new-in-paperback table, which might hold these recommended titles and many more. • “A Beautiful Crime” by Christopher Bollen (HarperCollins, $16.99). “What makes the crime in Bollen’s stylish new novel so beautiful is that the perps�...