Sam Schuman
Sam Schuman was Alta's 2020 Summer intern. He is a senior at Oberlin College, where he studies history, English, and French, and edits Wilder Voice, a literary magazine.
Alta Picks: Air/Light
A new online literary journal edited by one of Alta’s own aims to surprise readers—in a good way.
To California, from California
The roundabout product of an alternative-folk songwriter, a Los Angeles comedian, and the COVID-19 pandemic, California is a bizarre, tongue-in-cheek love letter to the state, one perhaps best appreciated as ‘folk’ music.
West Coast by Zoom
Alta’s first-ever editorial intern reflects on a California summer spent in New Jersey.
Resistance: How—Not Whether—to Act
In a series of letters sent between Frankfurt and San Diego during the tumult of the late 1960s, German intellectuals Theodor Adorno and Herbert Marcuse debated protest tactics, “left fascism,” and the use of force to maintain social order. A half century later, their arguments still resonate amid the unrest sweeping the United States.