
Finding current relevancy in the accusations of plagiarism that have long haunted a classic of the West: Stegner’s Angle of Repose.
THE MONDAY BOOK REVIEW

In The High Sierra: A Love Story, Kim Stanley Robinson traces a relationship with place.

In Valleyesque, Fernando A. Flores raises the stakes.

In Becoming Story: A Journey Among Seasons, Places, Trees, and Ancestors, Greg Sarris recalls the saga of his life.

Mark Haber discusses his novel Saint Sebastian’s Abyss and the vagaries of art.

In Corporate Rock Sucks, Jim Ruland traces an independent label’s rise and fall.

Alta celebrates the first lady of California letters with reflections from Griffin Dunne, Anita Kunz, Bret Easton Ellis and more.
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Wednesday, May 25, at 12:30 p.m. Pacific time


Twenty-five years after his murder, legendary rapper Tupac Shakur looms larger than ever.
THE WEEKLY ALTA NEWSLETTER

New documentary revisits a 1970s miscarriage of justice.

Remembering the erotic ’80s with Karina Longworth.

A San Francisco newsstand owner looks back.

A playwright turned literary detective on what Wallace Stegner took from Mary Hallock Foote.
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