Richmond, like most of the Bay Area, reveals itself through its murals.
This is How You Lose Her
Junot Diaz’s latest collection of short stories,This is How You Lose Her, continues to mine the author’s experiences as a Dominican immigrant in New Jersey
Magic, Terror, and San Francisco
In “Season of the Witch,” Salon.com founder David Talbot takes us through the turmoil, activism and passion of modern San Francisco’s violent birth in the 60s and 70s.
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975: A Review
Based on archival footage shot by a Swedish crew, the film offers a more balanced, outsider’s view on the American Black Power movement.
The Barbarian Nurseries
Héctor Tobar’s new novel takes a sprawling view of Los Angeles, from the gated communities to the back alleys and side streets where the marginalized and the forgotten create their own vibrant community.
A Memoir of Grief and Indelible Love
In Goldman’s hands, Aura becomes so indelible, so bristling with life, that when he writes of his life without her, our grief for his loss becomes as keening as his own.
Seeing Through the Dark
Our conversation with Manuel Muñoz, who, in his newest book, juxtaposes the hard-scrabble lives of the people of 1950’s Bakersfield with the glamor of Hollywood.
Chasing the Sun
In this monumental work chronicling the history of the Great Migration, Isabel Wilkerson’s greatest achievement is presenting three indelible individuals.
A Novel With Too Many Rooms: I Hotel
Karen Tei Yamashita’s novel I Hotel is an experimental epic that spans ten years in the social and political activism of the San Francisco Asian community.