FALSE NARRATIVES
Digging Into Wallace Stegner’s Theft of a Literary Life
Finding current relevancy in the accusations of plagiarism that have long haunted a classic of the West: Stegner’s Angle of Repose.
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Natural History
In The High Sierra: A Love Story, Kim Stanley Robinson traces a relationship with place.
Uncanny Valley
In Valleyesque, Fernando A. Flores raises the stakes.
The Never-Ending Story
In Becoming Story: A Journey Among Seasons, Places, Trees, and Ancestors, Greg Sarris recalls the saga of his life.
Ways of Seeing
Mark Haber discusses his novel Saint Sebastian’s Abyss and the vagaries of art.
Rock ’n’ Roll Fantasy
In Corporate Rock Sucks, Jim Ruland traces an independent label’s rise and fall.
COVER STORY
Joan Didion: 1934–2021
Alta celebrates the first lady of California letters with reflections from Griffin Dunne, Anita Kunz, Bret Easton Ellis and more.
EVENTS
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Alta Live: Trouble for California’s Kelp
Wednesday, May 18, at 12:30 p.m. Pacific time.
Alta Live: Did Stegner Steal ‘Angle of Repose'?
Wednesday, May 25, at 12:30 p.m. Pacific time
Wild Boars with Photographer Gordon Wiltsie
He’s an internationally renowned adventure photographer, but Gordon Wiltsie’s latest assignment for Alta Journal—photographing Californ…
Alta Live: Author Jane McGonigal
In this eye-opening interview, Jane McGonigal helps us prepare for a very imaginable future.
Alta Live: The Legacy of Tupac Shakur
Twenty-five years after his murder, legendary rapper Tupac Shakur looms larger than ever.
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The Ballad of Chol Soo Lee
New documentary revisits a 1970s miscarriage of justice.
Karina Longworth’s Erotic ’80s
Remembering the erotic ’80s with Karina Longworth.
Celebrating Black Women in Pop Music
A conversation with Danyel Smith.
The Fading San Francisco Newsstand
A San Francisco newsstand owner looks back.
A Literary Detective Story
A playwright turned literary detective on what Wallace Stegner took from Mary Hallock Foote.
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The New Canon
‘The Argonauts’ as Love Story
SPRING 2022
The Current Issue: Joan Didion
