Forever, it goes on
I feel like a 40-year-old returning to campus after a long hiatus, waxing poetic about my days as an undergraduate at UC Berkeley.
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In crisis, is art really nonessential?
Cutting Room Floor
Art is what has gotten our species through the most trying of times, and this year is shaping up to be one for the history books.
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UC Berkeley professor Luisa Caldas uses augmented reality to reveal untold history, unheard voices at BAMPFA
“Augmented Time” is an experience that allows audiences to use an iPad to examine the history, technique and people behind the construction of the BAMPFA building.
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New York Times’ ‘Modern Love’ column editor Daniel Jones discusses work, love, Amazon at the Commonwealth Club
As part of an Amazon Studios promotional screening, Jones sat down with Dr. Lucy Kalanithi, a clinical assistant professor at the Stanford School of Medicine, at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on Thursday night to discuss the new TV show, the evolution of the column and his take on love.
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34 years after ‘The Handmaid’s Tale,’ Margaret Atwood compels action in ‘The Testaments’
Atwood’s fast-paced writing in “The Testaments” reminds us that people do have the agency to enact change.
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From fiction to nonfiction: Margaret Atwood’s portrayal of a dystopia
What’s so spectacular about Atwood’s work is her ability to access the emotions within the nuanced loss of rights, scapegoating and desperation in disaster situations.
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Study abroad nightlife: Dancing in Dakar
It’s 9 p.m. in Dakar, Senegal, and the night hasn’t even begun.
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Reflections on the death of America’s storyteller: An ode to Toni Morrison
Cutting Room Floor
Toni Morrison exposed, often violently and unabashedly, the invisible stories inked into the fabric of America when such an act was unheard of and unwelcomed — especially when a Black woman was behind it.
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Colson Whitehead holds an unforgiving mirror to the American experiment in ‘The Nickel Boys’
Though difficult to read at times, the physical brutality of Elwood’s beating underscore Whitehead’s task of complete disclosure.
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The Earth is dying — ‘Sea of Shadows’ is a thrilling film about doing something about it
As Sea Shepherd first mate Jack Hutton explains, “To anyone who says one person cannot make a difference, 30 people here have saved thousands of lives.”
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