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Dec 12, 2023
Daniel Clowes’ Brutal Realism
A woman with a beehive hairdo appears on the cover of Daniel Clowes’ graphic novel, Monica. The color of her skin is the same shade of blue as Shadow Lass, a character drawn in the DC comic...
Nov 28, 2023
The Becoming of Mimi Tempestt
The best advice for reading mimi tempestt’s second book, the delicacy of embracing spirals, other than “do it,” is to remember to breathe. Now and then also pause, placing the Berkeley-based writer’s tornado of poetry aside to...
Sep 26, 2023
Now and Then
Heather Cox Richardson is hot on history. During a phone interview to talk about her new book, Democracy Awakening, Notes on the State of America, the Boston College professor is most animated by a question about a...
May 3, 2023
In Due Time
Author Jenny Odell discovers a life beyond the clock
In her new book, Oakland writer Jenny Odell, author of How to Do Nothing, examines time as a commodity to be bought, sold and traded. The clock one lives...
Feb 15, 2023
Liminal Is Lit
Ayize Jama-Everett delivers with the latest installment in his sprawling sci-fi saga
Ayize Jama-Everett, author of the audacious Liminals quartet of superhero novels, brings all the elements of its jam-packed plot together in a satisfying final volume, Heroes...
Feb 1, 2023
A Bud Bible
New coffee table book has something for everyone
Recently I had the pleasure of reading a lovely little book called The Joy of Cannabis. I have to admit, although a life-long adult cannabis user who has written tens...