Lit

Viz Valley DIY joint Bric-A-Brac blends peculiar creations with punk attitude

Now a year old, the arts space hosts underground bands, esoteric films, synth workshops, and 'a bunch of bullshit thrown together.'

Culture Dhruv Baronia - September 1, 2026

Deep lessons from art and life in Dave Eggers’ ‘Contrapposto’

Local literary hero and trained artist's latest novel dives into a wide-ranging love story that shows a more mature side.

Lit Lou Fancher - August 24, 2026

She touched roses: From Book of Love to ‘Plants That Heal’ with Susan Ottaviano

As synth-pop queen prepares band debut's 40th anniversary tour, she pops into Omnivore Books with some natural wisdom.

Lit Joshua Rotter - August 20, 2026

Kiev, 1911: the Bund, revolution, and a sparkling work of historical fiction

'Radiant as the Stars' tells of a young woman who returns from the US to fight in the Russian Revolution—and it's based on a real story

Lit Tim Redmond - August 18, 2026

Lit

Subversive spirit matches Victorian romantic intrigue in Ayelet Waldman’s latest

Lou Fancher - August 7, 2026

Berkeley author knocked off from award-winning TV work to finish 'a failed novel I tried to write a decade ago.'

Lit

‘The Last Human Bear’ came to Jack Kerouac Alley

Tom Molanphy - August 2, 2026

Author and Native American tribal chairman Greg Sarris discussed his first novel in 30 years, immersed in 1930s Pomo history.

Lit

Devouring the indomitable spirit of Bambi Lake

Brendan McHugh - July 28, 2026

Posthumous poetry collection from often abrasive, endlessly creative trans punk icon celebrates a life led 'too soon.'

Lit

Andrew Sean Greer: ‘Everything’s terrifying to me—even buying a stick of gum’

Lou Fancher - July 19, 2026

When it comes to writing, the Pulitzer-winning author of hilarious new 'Villa Coco' knows to feel the fear and do it anyway.

Lit

Exploring SF’s recent history: New book looks at 1990 to 2024

Tim Redmond - July 14, 2026

Booms, busts, tech, evictions, Burning Man... We talk to 'City on the Edge' author Jonathan Weber about our contentious moment.

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New novel ‘Midnight, at the War’ grapples with journalistic truth after 9/11

Lou Fancher - June 23, 2026

Devi S. Laskar's latest sweeps its reporter-protagonist across the world and deep into thorny, resonant questions.

Movies

We love you, Mamie Van Doren

Joshua Rotter - June 12, 2026

95-year-old Hollywood legend's new memoir 'You Thought I Was Dead' gushes with celebrities, sex, champagne—and survival.

Lit

An Oakland union researcher wrote a book. Her characters brought class into it

James Tracy - June 10, 2026

New novel 'Muñeca' by Cynthia Gómez delivers Gothic fiction suffused with queerness and rebellion.

Lit

Reproductive injustice in 1960s San Francisco exposed in Kate Schatz’s debut novel

Lou Fancher - May 18, 2026

Horrendous recent Supreme Court decision and a very personal connection spurred tale of teenager facing pregnancy.

Arts + Culture

Cole Swensen’s ‘Veer’ swerves towards the limits of language

Lou Fancher - May 12, 2026

Poems that dare to go into the minds of crows, up tree trunks, or daringly close to the sun.

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Lit

Allen Ginsberg ‘Howl’s again at all-star centennial celebration

Joshua Rotter - May 7, 2026

Kronos Quartet, Kim Stanley Robinson, Merrill Garbus, Brontez Purnell, Andy Cabic, morę mark 100 years of poet-iconoclast.

Music

How ‘absurd grunge Cinderella’ Melissa Auf der Maur embraced her wild ’90s

Joshua Rotter - April 18, 2026

Hole and Smashing Pumpkins bassist's intense memoir 'Even the Good Girls Will Cry' peels back rock icon mythos

Lit

Four decades later, seminal queer punk zine ‘Homocore’ blasts back into view

Joshua Rotter - March 26, 2026

New anthology collects the DIY publication's precious few issues, which gave voice to anti-assimilationist sexual outlaws.

Lit

Karl Marx at the Antiquarian Book Fair; or, anybody got $134,900 to spare?

Joel Schechter - February 24, 2026

57th edition of rare volume exhibition brings treasures to Pier 27—and some ironic commodity fetishism.

Culture

It wasn’t all bad! Our 16 favorite local cultural moments of 2025

Marke B. - January 20, 2026

Dead & Co, Mychal Threets, Coyote Media, Golden State Valkyries, Art Book Fair, rap royalty... moments that shone last year

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Lit

Viz Valley DIY joint Bric-A-Brac blends peculiar creations with punk attitude

Deep lessons from art and life in Dave Eggers’ ‘Contrapposto’

She touched roses: From Book of Love to ‘Plants That Heal’ with Susan Ottaviano

Kiev, 1911: the Bund, revolution, and a sparkling work of historical fiction

Subversive spirit matches Victorian romantic intrigue in Ayelet Waldman’s latest

‘The Last Human Bear’ came to Jack Kerouac Alley

Devouring the indomitable spirit of Bambi Lake

Andrew Sean Greer: ‘Everything’s terrifying to me—even buying a stick of gum’

Exploring SF’s recent history: New book looks at 1990 to 2024

New novel ‘Midnight, at the War’ grapples with journalistic truth after 9/11

We love you, Mamie Van Doren

An Oakland union researcher wrote a book. Her characters brought class into it

Reproductive injustice in 1960s San Francisco exposed in Kate Schatz’s debut novel

Cole Swensen’s ‘Veer’ swerves towards the limits of language

Allen Ginsberg ‘Howl’s again at all-star centennial celebration

How ‘absurd grunge Cinderella’ Melissa Auf der Maur embraced her wild ’90s

Four decades later, seminal queer punk zine ‘Homocore’ blasts back into view

Karl Marx at the Antiquarian Book Fair; or, anybody got $134,900 to spare?

It wasn’t all bad! Our 16 favorite local cultural moments of 2025

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