Lit

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

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

Lit Tim Redmond - July 14, 2026

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

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

Lit Lou Fancher - June 23, 2026

We love you, Mamie Van Doren

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

Movies Joshua Rotter - June 12, 2026

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

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

Lit James Tracy - June 10, 2026

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.

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.

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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

Lit

Tip-top tomes: Our favorite books of 2025

Lou Fancher - December 16, 2025

Oakland community history, knockout African folklore, Julian Brave Noisecat's debut. Here's what got us through the year

Lit

At Zinn Fair, Steve Martinot connects police brutality to US fascism’s rise

Andy Gillis - December 4, 2025

SFSU Instructor Emeritus has written several books on racism and police; he'll speak at social justice gathering.

Lit

Turn that anger into action at this year’s Howard Zinn Book Fair

Marke B. - December 1, 2025

The annual social justice bonanza celebrates the history and possibilities of engagement in an era of despair.

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Lit

‘Poetry for Men’

Nina Ruth Mir - November 19, 2025

A poem by Nina Ruth Mir on International Mens Day.

Music

Roddy Bottum: ‘It felt like a sense of royalty’ to live through SF’s alt-rock era

Joshua Rotter - November 16, 2025

Faith No More and Imperial Teen musician’s memoir 'The Royal We' captures scrappy scene's roots.

Lit

In ‘Vera,’ Gary Shteyngart depicts growing up in a world becoming ever more cruel

Lou Fancher - November 1, 2025

The writer draws on his Soviet childhood—and watching his own son today—for latest novel about a wondrous little girl.

Lit

Join us for Litcrawl’s ‘The Waymo That Ate San Francisco’

Marke B. - October 23, 2025

Indie media journalists take on the AI Bubble and Big Tech with hilarious, thought-provoking, and award-winning pieces.

LGBTQ

Trans trailblazer Miss Major has passed: Read our 2023 interview with the Stonewall veteran

Caitlin Donohue - October 14, 2025

'The best trait an organizer can have is to listen, and to listen closely to what the people want,' she told us.

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Lit

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

Tip-top tomes: Our favorite books of 2025

At Zinn Fair, Steve Martinot connects police brutality to US fascism’s rise

Turn that anger into action at this year’s Howard Zinn Book Fair

‘Poetry for Men’

Roddy Bottum: ‘It felt like a sense of royalty’ to live through SF’s alt-rock era

In ‘Vera,’ Gary Shteyngart depicts growing up in a world becoming ever more cruel

Join us for Litcrawl’s ‘The Waymo That Ate San Francisco’

Trans trailblazer Miss Major has passed: Read our 2023 interview with the Stonewall veteran

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