BooksBooks

A book rested against a woman's knees viewed in side profile. Her right arm is reaching out to touch the pages. She is wearing a simple tank top.

5 Unnerving Shirley Jackson Short Stories to Read Before Halloween

A section of a book cover featuring swirling grey patterns that resemble sand, and swirling blues that resemble the sea and sky.

Dystopian Suspense ‘Land of Milk and Honey’ Satisfies All Manner of Appetites

A small white man wearing spectacles and a suit, sits looking introspective in an armchair, his right arm stretched out and draped over the arm of the chair.

A Rare Truman Capote Story From the Early 1950s Has Been Published for the First Time

Jessica Knoll’s ‘Bright Young Women’ is an Ode to Victims and Survivors of Ted Bundy

An older woman in a pink shirt looks at a music stand and holds a guitar. The text "8 over 80" and "Vangie Buell" is overlaid

After a Lifetime of Music and Activism, Vangie Buell’s Not Done Inspiring Others

Close-up of a large number of broken cellphones, including cracked cellphone screens with exposed wiring, on a white surface.

Novelist and Blogger Cory Doctorow Pens a Manual for Destroying Big Tech

An illustrated book cover showing a large, detached Victorian house with a porch at sunset. Lights are on in the basement and one upstairs room. Silhouettes of trees flank the house on both sides.

Stephen King Finds Terror in the Ordinary in New Pandemic-Set Novel ‘Holly’

‘Holler, Child’ Is a Profound Short Story Collection About Black Lives in America

Three hikers, walking some distance from each other walk a desolate and rocky path through mountains that stretch off into the distance.

‘Trail of the Lost’ is a Gripping Tale of Hikers Missing on the Pacific Crest Trail

The wooden fences, monuments and trees of a cemetery in the mid-1800s. A church with a two-story perpendicular addition. Masonry on the first floor, a wooden second story.

Think You Know About San Francisco’s Forgotten Cemeteries? Think Again

These Poems by Latin American Women Reflect a Multilingual Region

A close up image of an orange haired young woman embracing another woman with black hair from behind. The first woman has a tattoo of a female figure with a banner that says "mother" on her forearm. The woman she is embracing has a tattoo on her chest of a heart and flowers with a banner that says "mother."

Chloe Sherman’s ‘Renegades’ Beautifully Conveys Queer Life in 1990s San Francisco

More articles

Player sponsored by