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ISSUE 34

The Vegans Bought a Cattle Ranch
After building a plant-based-restaurant empire, the brood behind Café Gratitude has bet on meat—and MAHA ideals.

15 New Books for August
Here are the works by authors on and of the West—The Sleeping Sisters, Makeshift, The Nightingales—that we’re most excited to see published this month.

Family Portraits
A look inside Alta Journal’s Issue 36.
Latest from the California Book Club
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Lo Bonito
In Los Angeles, an undocumented mother confronts cancer and deportation fears through labor, faith, and grace.

Bearing Witness
She photographed the Black Panthers, the Alcatraz occupation, and the farmworker movement. At 84, Ilka Hartmann is still developing film—and still a radical.
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Writer’s Room: Native Forms of Knowledge
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Highway 89 Revisited
A 1,400-mile trip through several national parks takes a writer deep into his past.
The Latest

Weekly Cartoon: Altatude #8 Issue 36

Letters to the Editor: Power to the Parks

Letters to the Editor: Continually Annoyed

California Bestsellers List (August 6, 2026)

The Grand Canyon’s Keeper of Lost Things

Letters to the Editor: Lost in the River

An Emotional Journey

Society’s Vestigial Tail

Ask a Californian: Swimming with Sharks

Maggie’s Farm

Weekly Cartoon: Altatude #7 Issue 36




















