EVERYDAY ACTIVISTS
Lava Thomas Uncovers Untold Stories of Black Women
Drawing on personal and national histories, Lava Thomas’s art centers the experiences of many Black Americans.
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The Home Front
In Mercury Pictures Presents, Anthony Marra looks back at World War II.
The Apartment
Tess Gunty’s The Rabbit Hutch is a first novel of uncommon power.
Exile and the Kingdom
Thomas Mann’s Los Angeles illuminates the author’s experience in California.
Hotel California
Liska Jacobs spares no one in her third novel, The Pink Hotel.
The Fault in Their Stars
Anna Dorn’s second novel, Exalted, is a Gemini of a book.
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The New Canon
California Book Club: Rabih Alameddine Transcript
COSMIC COUTURE
Design That Is Out of This World
Why space fashion may be an unlikely beneficiary of the rocket boom.
EVENTS
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Alta Live: Illustrator Stanley Chow
Wednesday, August 24, at 12:30 p.m. Pacific time
Alta Live: Disabled Hikers Blaze New Trails
Wednesday, August 31, at 12:30 p.m. Pacific time
Alta Live: Author Marianne Wiggins
Thursday, September 15, at 6:30 p.m. Pacific time
Alta Live: Artist and Naturalist Robin Lee Carlson
In her new book, The Cold Canyon Fire Journals, the author charts the renewal of wildlife after wildfires through a five-year case stud…
Indie Bookstores: What Does It Take to Survive
Indie bookselling experts from the American Booksellers Association, Green Apple Books, and Space Cowboy Books explain what it takes fo…
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Not a Fan
The hidden history of the biggest scene-stealers in Nope.
Naming Interned Japanese Americans
Crowdsourcing names of Japanese Americans interned during WWII.
More Amazing Bookstores
Even more bookstores to love.
Compost Burials in Washington State
Turning the dead into soil in Washington State.
Baby Bushka Covers Kate Bush
Wow! A Kate Bush cover band finds its moment.
SUMMER 2022
Summer 2022/Issue 20
