Lit

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

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

Lit Lou Fancher - May 18, 2026

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

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

Arts + Culture Lou Fancher - May 12, 2026

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

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

Lit Joshua Rotter - May 7, 2026

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

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

Music Joshua Rotter - April 18, 2026

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

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.

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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.

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.

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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.

Lit

First-ever Robert Crumb biography zaps with iconoclast’s free speech and wild pen

Joel Schechter - October 11, 2025

Author Dan Nadel gained intimate access to living legend and comic book peers for 'A Cartoonist's Life.'

Lit

Two decades in, you still can’t break Broke-Ass Stuart

Joshua Rotter - October 6, 2025

Beloved SF chronicler and bon vivant releases new book 'The Worst of Broke-Ass Stuart: 20 Years of Love, Death & Dive Bars.'

Lit

Join 48 Hills’ Marke B and author Sarah Schulman at Litquake!

Marke B. - October 6, 2025

Join us Sun/12 at Counterpulse for a free Tenderloin workshop on 'The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity.'

Lit

Writer Michael Luo is ready for the happy ending

Emily Wilson - September 18, 2025

'Strangers in the Land' author shares what his deeply researched book on Chinese immigration history has in common with 'KPop Demon Hunters.'

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Lit

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

First-ever Robert Crumb biography zaps with iconoclast’s free speech and wild pen

Two decades in, you still can’t break Broke-Ass Stuart

Join 48 Hills’ Marke B and author Sarah Schulman at Litquake!

Writer Michael Luo is ready for the happy ending

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