Ajay Orona

This month, we’ve got our eyes on Call Her Freedom, Alternative Facts, and nine other titles by writers on the West.

This month, we’ve got our eyes on How We Know Our Time Travelers, The Last One, and eight other titles by writers on the West.

Pacific Design Center and SCI-Arc’s PST Art exhibition, Views of Planet City, proposes a bold solution to the environmental crisis.

This month, we’ve got our eyes on Didion and Babitz, Cher, and eight other titles by writers on and of the West.

This month, we’ve got our eyes on New Testaments, Comforting Myths: Concerning the Political in Art, and 10 other titles by writers on and of the West.

This month, we’ve got our eyes on I Love Hearing Your Dreams, Dispossessed, and eight other titles by writers on and of the West.

This month, we’ve got our eyes on My Chicano Heart, A Wilder Shore, and eight other titles by writers on and of the West.

This month, we’ve got our eyes on The Rent Collectors, Coachella Elegy, and 10 other titles by writers on the West.

This month, we’ve got our eyes on Life Span, The Sons of El Rey, What Fire Brings, and 11 other titles by writers on the West.

This month, we’ve got our eyes on The Red Grove, Love Is a Burning Thing, Reading the Room, and 12 other titles by writers on the West.

This month, we’ve got our eyes on Chipped, Like Love, and 12 other titles by writers on the West.

This month, we’ve got our eyes on James, Tough Broad, and 10 other titles by writers on the West.

This month, we’ve got our eyes on The Book of Love, Wandering Stars, and nine other titles by writers on the West.

This month, we’ve got our eyes on Fog and Smoke, Martyr!, and 10 other titles by writers on the West.

This month, we’ve got our eyes on Songs on Endless Repeat, Light As Light, and eight other titles by writers on the West.

This month, we’ve got our eyes on My Name Is Barbra, Resurrection Walk, and nine other titles by writers on the West.

The regular Altatude cartoonist’s new graphic memoir takes us along for an eye-opening ride as he departs the Bay Area for Idaho.

Meet five artists from the Hammer Museum’s biennial exhibition, Made in L.A.

Chevron cleared clones of the historic Eagle Tree, but it can’t remove the tree’s most ardent defenders.

In this newsletter, we consider author Percival Everett’s references to chess moves in May’s CBC selection, the novel Telephone.

A Washington artist considers the influence of place on creativity.

Researchers show that it is possible to reintroduce the iconic brown bear to California. Will people go for it?

In this newsletter, we suggest five works of magical realism from Latin American storytellers to savor after reading March’s CBC selection, The House of the Spirits.

In this newsletter, we introduce Less, the February California Book Club selection, which offers the gift of defamiliarization.

The art of knowing oneself in Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Gold Coast.

An obsession with James Bond leads to another obsession: divers.

Julie Otsuka’s The Swimmers, the September California Book Club pick, reveals the limits of language and plays with the range of possibilities for other timelines.

Amid global tensions and the expansion of privatized space travel, the ISS may soon fall back to Earth.

Take a $5 million three-day getaway to outer space’s hottest hotel.

Explore a universe of space-themed music with Alta Journal’s Spotify playlist.

Tesla founder Elon Musk packs a literary punch.

An archaic career makes a very modern comeback.