All Over Low Water Marks James C. Scott's problematic paean to floods. Brian Slattery 13 Jun 2025 · 9 min read
New Haven Sound & Awe Son, mom team up to reveal the reality of growing up with cochlear implants. Paul Bass 13 Jun 2025 · 3 min read
All Over Crashing Hard: The Surreal Obsession at the Heart of "Sky Daddy" In a society that values AI over people and their screen addictions, a love affair between a woman and a plane doesn't seem so very strange. Vita Hewitt 12 Jun 2025 · 3 min read
All Over Face To Facebook "Careless People" will change the way you view the granddaddy of social media. Jenn McKee 5 Jun 2025 · 4 min read
All Over Comedy Racket Before the "Daily Show," Michael Kosta dreamed of tennis fame. Jenn McKee 21 May 2025 · 4 min read
All Over A City at the Crossroads: Oakland’s Global Role Madrigal has deftly illuminated a web of history, credit, globalization and customer desire that created the landscape that we know of as Oakland today. Vita Hewitt 16 May 2025 · 4 min read
All Over Unjust Thoughts Lori Ostlund’s collection of short stories explores the daily pains of family, love, and trauma, in an easy to consume package. Sarah Bass 15 May 2025 · 3 min read
All Over From Blob To Belief In a debut novel, A new take on molding non-human companionship. Paul Bass 8 May 2025 · 4 min read
All Over Betting Big On whether a book can make people care about a new runaway-train predatory industry. Paul Bass 10 Apr 2025 · 5 min read
Oakland A Shining Star In The Shadow of Hollywood’s Barriers “When I die, my epitaph should be: I died a thousand deaths. That was the story of my film career.” Vita Hewitt 9 Apr 2025 · 5 min read
All Over Now We Know Why A new "Hunger Games" prequel answers some questions and challenges us about our role amid the world' evils. Erica Hobbs 8 Apr 2025 · 4 min read
book review Survival Is No Joke In Boris Fishman's new novel about a family escaping civil war and totalitarianism. Paul Bass 27 Mar 2025 · 6 min read
All Over Get This Bread A fresh book by baker and writer Jim Franks frames culinary experimentation as a coping tactic for existential dread. Izzy True 10 Mar 2025 · 1 min read
Books What We Owe The Dogs We "Own" In his new poetry collection, Reginald Dwayne Betts questions who's in control Laura Glesby 3 Mar 2025 · 3 min read
Books A Raw, Poetic Journey of Identity, Rebellion, and Self-Discovery How much of who we are is defined by the world around us, and how much of it is something we must create for ourselves? Aria Aber explores identity in this debut coming of age novel. Vita Hewitt 21 Feb 2025 · 4 min read
Philadelphia Reasons Why I Hate Spotify "Mood Machine," journalist Liz Pelly's new book, lays out how a Swedish ad-tech company swallowed the music industry with the help of major labels. Izzy True 13 Feb 2025 · 1 min read
book review Power To The Novelist A search for Black Panther truth -- through fiction. Paul Bass 10 Feb 2025 · 5 min read
Oakland California Against the Sea: Rosanna Xia Takes the High Road on Sea Level Rise An author's chat at Clio's Books offers a clear-eyed look at the storms brewing outside. Frederick Noland 5 Nov 2024 · 1 min read