Social media posts, including from the Department of Homeland Security and a Texas Republican candidate, have helped stir fear among people of South Asian heritage.

Emily St. John Mandel’s Exit Party considers agency and political constraints in connection with a mysterious Los Angeles party in the near future.

Post-pandemic dystopias are at the center of Emily St. John Mandel’s most celebrated novels. Station Eleven (2014), which won the Prix des Libraires du Québec, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Toron…

Emily St. John Mandel’s Exit Party considers agency and political constraints in connection with a mysterious Los Angeles party in the near future.

For Soleil Ho, September 11 was their political origin story.

ISSUE 132 181 Pages In This Issue: Nonfiction “Saguaro in the Sea” by Sophia Acuña: on surfing and indigeneity in Southern California, told through collage. “Care Directive” by Sarah Matsui: a dau...

"The Library Book" author Susan Orlean sits down for a conversation with CBC host John Freeman. The most catastrophic library fire in United States history occurred in the spring of 1986 at the Los A...

I first learned of J.M. Sidorova’s The Witch of Prague because we share a love for the famed Unicorn Tapestries, a set of unicorn tapestries woven more than 500 years ago, depicting a medieval unicorn...

For 27 years, Rose Lowe has been returning visitors’ misplaced treasures—and collecting the stories that come with them.

The NOAA review of California’s coastal management program could weaken the state’s authority to block offshore oil drilling and industrial development near the Coastside. Residents have until Aug. 22...

Our bevy of brilliant reviews this week includes Lily Meyer on J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, Adam Federman on Matthew Wolfe’s Fires in the Night, Lauren Christensen on Julie B…

Gary Phillips’s Violent Spring is the California Book Club’s November 2024 selection.

Route 85 in California now inspires dread. Some of us remember when it was a vision of the future.

It was yet another early exit for a team that has never made it to the World Cup semifinals — but no wanted to dwell on defeat, because no one felt defeated.

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.

Julian Brave NoiseCat’s We Survived the Night braids history, mythology, and family into one of the most original Indigenous memoirs in recent memory.

Novels set during the height of COVID-19 fail to tell the full story of that era of mass death and despair.

Christian Pulisic sets up two goals and Folarin Balogun scores twice behind an impressive offensive showcase by the U.S. in a 4-1 World Cup win over Paraguay.

State officials are warning that some ballots mailed too close to Election Day might not be counted. Here are other recommended ways to submit your ballot instead.

Whether you’re new to AAPI literature or looking to go deeper, these 20 books, spanning memoir, fiction, graphic novels, and more, are essential reading all year long.

Whether you’re new to AAPI literature or looking to go deeper, these 20 books, spanning memoir, fiction, graphic novels, and more, are essential reading all year long.

ISSUE 132 181 Pages In This Issue: Nonfiction “Saguaro in the Sea” by Sophia Acuña: on surfing and indigeneity in Southern California, told through collage. “Care Directive” by Sarah Matsui: a dau...

From A Thousand Acres to Horse Heaven and her forthcoming novel Lidie, Jane Smiley reflects on racehorses, genre, and the restless curiosity that drives her fiction.

In “The Witch,” a mother passes to her daughters a secret, burdensome power, but sorcery can’t fix a household that’s coming apart.

Debbie Millman and I are thrilled to share some exciting new initiatives we are launching with The Rumpus. Beginning on April 1, 2026, we are increasing