Alta Monday Book Review
THE LATEST
Another Punch in the Head
Gary Phillips’s antihero returns in The Haul, a gripping new heist novel.
5 minTHE MONDAY BOOK REVIEW
California Dreaming
Eve Babitz’s Too L.A.: Letters Never Sent (but Some Were) is a work in progress.
The Making of Cannabis Country
Charlie Harris’s lucid history of Mendocino County, Mendo, charts how a Northern California outpost was transformed into a lab for counterculture, cannabis and the shifting American West.
7 min
City by the Bay
Jonathan Weber’s nonfiction work City on the Edge tells the story of how technology and politics altered San Francisco over the past 40 years.
6 min
Brave New World
Deb Olin Unferth’s novel Earth 7 reframes the apocalypse.
7 min
Recently Reviewed: New Books Worth Your Time
“Out of My Way!”
7 min
Art for Humans
7 min
The Struggle Continues
Recruiting You to the Barricades
In Privacy’s Defender, Electronic Frontier Foundation executive director Cindy Cohn illuminates highs and lows of her career and life.
Alta’s Recently Reviewed
From memoir and literary fiction to noir and writing craft, these standout titles were recently featured in our Monday Book Review newsletter.
Gavin Newsom’s Bid for Likability
In Young Man in a Hurry, Governor Gavin Newsom provides a California story that focuses on defining himself.
Memory House
Hannah Lillith Assadi’s Paradiso 17 tells the life story of a Palestinian man forever in search of home.
Let’s Have Some Fun
Kathleen Boland discusses her rollicking debut novel, Scavengers.
Lights, Camera…Screen Time
Lauren Rothery’s debut novel, Television, breaks new ground with wicked wit.
Memory Book
In This Year, John Darnielle (de)mystifies the song.
Permission for Writers
Elizabeth McCracken’s A Long Game is a craft book that sidesteps rules.
6 min
Long Con in the New West
Time and Tide
7 min
The Physics of Grief: Aja Gabel’s ‘Lightbreakers’
