From the Bay Area and beyond, this roundup of fall reading captures the latest from an Oakland cartoonist, a Pulitzer Prize winner, a tech industry expert and more. A stacked fall season for readers ...

Every great book is a gift in some way, an offering from author to reader in the form of knowledge, labor, entertainment, heart and wisdom. When considering books worth gifting for the upcoming ...

Calling all opera queens: San Francisco Opera is hosting its first ever Pride Concert. The celebration features the San Francisco Opera Orchestra, conducted by Music Director Eun Sun Kim and Robert ...

Beautiful books make classic gifts for a good reason. What better way to show you understand what delights, inspires or just plain occupies the minds of your loved ones than giving them a thoughtful ...

From Alexandra Chang’s “Days of Distraction,” which chronicles the coming-of-age of a young Asian American tech journalist, to former Instagram employee Josh Reidel’s “Please Report Your Bug Here,” ...

In the prologue to Safiya Sinclair’s astounding new memoir, she describes a turning point at the end of her turbulent teenage years in which she’s standing on the veranda of her family’s home in ...

Linda Gordon’s latest book, “Seven Social Movements That Changed America,” examines seven pivotal social movements, including the Montgomery bus boycott and the California farmworkers’… Historian ...

Fallen Catholics, lifelong sybarites and those just flirting with the possibility of leaving puritanical morality behind can all take inspiration from sketch comedy this month, as the 28-year-old ...

In ‘The Book of Love,’ Kelly Link harnesses the surreal and the everyday in a tale of three teenagers learning to wield magic. “Book of Love” by Kelly Link. Photo: Random House Three teens have come ...

When you pick up a Bryan Washington novel, it’s best to know what you’re getting into. What you can expect right off the bat: graphic sex with acquaintances, partners and strangers (and then more of ...

Over the past 20 years, the SFJazz Collective has mined the jazz canon for inspiration, interpreting the music of the masters with each band member also writing an original tune for the ensemble. Now ...

Lower Grand Radio is hosting a string of events in the East Bay to celebrate its anniversary. Photo: Courtesy Alex Shen Oakland’s Lower Grand Radio is pulling out all the stops for its 10th ...