34 years after ‘The Handmaid’s Tale,’ Margaret Atwood compels action in ‘The Testaments’
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Atwood’s fast-paced writing in “The Testaments” reminds us that people do have the agency to enact change.
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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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‘A voice to capture this generation’: Ocean Vuong captivates at Bay Area reading
America is too often a country of individuals, Vuong said. He aims to inspire a commitment to others so that such individuals might become a people.
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A communion of interiorities: At Bay Area Book Festival, readers and writers make personal, social discourses heard
The Bay Area Book Festival embodies the communal aspect of literature — its potential to bridge differences and highlight commonalities.
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David Thomson discusses cinematic voyeurism for his book ‘Sleeping with Strangers: How the Movies Shaped Desire’
Thomson noted that being able to intrude upon the lives of others is taboo in real life but is a fundamental aspect of desire in movies.
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David Wallace-Wells, author of ‘The Uninhabitable Earth,’ argues for role of alarmism in confronting climate change
For two people battling with the label of “alarmism,” moreover, Wallace-Wells and NoiseCat were both nuanced and articulate throughout their conversation.
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Laurie R. King moderates panel of 4 European crime writers at Bay Area Book Festival
When interviewing four high-profile robbers, make sure to put them in the same room, or else they’ll give you four different stories.
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At Bay Area Book Festival’s ‘On Not Mothering,’ talk of freedom, lack of direction
Choosing whether or not to have children, the panelists noted, is one of the most consequential decisions a woman has to make.
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Bay Area Book Festival honors local powerhouse at ‘Lawrence Ferlinghetti at 100: A Tribute’
On March 24 of this year, he turned 100 years old — an event that warranted celebration all around the world, including a birthday party at City Lights.
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Poets discuss future of artistic queerness at Bay Area Book Festival’s ‘Queer Poetics’
“Each poet sitting next to me here is considering queer pasts, writing from the present afterlives of colonial expansion … and plotting the queer future.”
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