Dante’s Inferno meets Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi in this all-new dark academia fantasy from R. F.

From the acclaimed environmentalist comes a call to harness solar power and rewrite our scientific, economic, and political future.

A raw and deeply moving memoir from the legendary author of The God of Small Things and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, Mother Mary Comes to Me traces the complex relationship between Arundhati Roy and her mother, Mary, a fierce and formidable force who shaped Roy’s life both as a woman and a writer. Tickets with “& Book” include a copy of Mother Mary Comes to Me, shipped to your door by our bookstore partner Elliott Bay Book Company.

From the best-selling author of These Truths comes We the People, a stunning new history of the U.S. Constitution, for a troubling new era.

After five years, Seattle Arts & Lectures is returning to an in-person luncheon fundraiser to support Writers in the Schools (WITS)! Please join us on Friday, October 17 for our 2025 Back-to-School Luncheon and help support thousands of K-12 public school students in developing their creative voice! Funds raised from the luncheon supports SAL’s Writers in the Schools (WITS) program as well as SAL’s mission of cultivating spaces of creative expression for the next generation of writers and readers. WITS is a youth program of Seattle Arts & Lectures that connects professional, Seattle-based writers with K-12 public school classrooms to elevate and amplify the voices of over 6,000 students throughout the region.

In her first nonfiction book in a decade, #1 bestselling writer Elizabeth Gilbert who taught millions of readers to live authentically (Eat Pray Love) and creatively (Big Magic) shows how to break free, joining Community Curated Series director Colleen Echohawk in conversation.