Books, Film, Music

We visit a Bay Area Japanese izakaya, owned and operated by chef and author of the new Rintaro cookbook Sylvan Mishima Brackett ’98.

Catching up with a former student and star of HBO's The Gilded Age, Morgan Spector ’02

Biting and relatable, Kate Christensen’s latest novel grapples with midlife, trauma, and climate change.

The stories of British colonialism come to life in Prof. Natarajan’s Hear Our Voices.

January 2, 2024

Library of America honors poet Gary Snyder ’51 with volume of his collected poems.

July 28, 2023

Prof. David Schiff’s musical journey winds through the vineyard with Susan Sokol-Blosser ’67 and around the track with Steve Prefontaine.

June 14, 2023

The piece appears in ‘Public Feminisms,’ an open-access book published in April by Lever Press.

April 21, 2023

The posthumously published novel is wry and penetrating.

April 19, 2023

Anthropology major Emilie Kelly ’25 used a classic lawn game to break the ice before entering into deeper conversation.

April 14, 2023

Josh Riedel ’07 was Instagram’s first employee. His debut novel plunges readers into startup life.

January 6, 2023

Nili Yosha ’07 empowers houseless youth through filmmaking.

November 7, 2022

English 261 investigates a history of US film culture through the lens of the cinematic Western.

October 20, 2022

A new book by Gal Beckerman '98 explores the conditions required for revolutionary ideas to foment—or fester.

September 2, 2022

Stephanie Guyer-Stevens ’86 documents the unique power of female shamans in Bhutan.