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Book Gift Guide
As with everything else, it's been a rough year in bookselling. Now that it's...
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99 Percent Invisible City
Why are manhole covers round? What's the deal with those colorful inflated tubes that...
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The Butterfly Effect
2015 was a tense year. Protesters took to the streets in multiple states, demanding...
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Brighter Days for Dark Carnival
Berkeley's Dark Carnival has seen bleak times before.
The Claremont Avenue science fiction and fantasy...
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Poetry as Prophecy
I'm hazy on the details, but apparently a couple of freelance astronauts parked a...
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Anti-Racist Reading List
As protests against police brutality continue in the streets, and are met with more...
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Beat Survivor
MORRISON'S MUSE: The late beat poet Michael McClure.
Credits: OneHandClapping - CC
I first met Michael...
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Virtual Book Signings
A pandemic might be a good time to catch up on your reading, but...
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Doing Some Binge Reading?
Harvard Business School professor Ryan Raffaelli describes the unique value that independent booksellers provide...
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Books To Read While Social Distancing
Okay, you're stuck in the house, but is it really that awful? OK, probably....
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Updating a Narrative of Slavery
In her new novel, The Revisioners, Oakland writer Margaret Wilkerson Sexton explores the legacy...
Arts & Culture
Why Home Ownership Has Kept Declining
Aaron Glantz knows he is lucky. Aided by family members, good timing, the color...
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In Conversation with Dashka Slater
Dashka Slater
In 2013, 16-year-old Richard Thomas set fire to 16-year-old...
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Stewart Harvey and Larry Harvey Talk About Burning Man
Where better than Berkeley to talk about Burning Man? Larry...
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