A children's poetry competition run by the BBC and the Latitude festival is expanding to cover three counties. The winner ...

A posthumous memoir by Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, Hisham Matar's novel “My Friends” and a poetry collection by ...

On the eve of the first day of spring, Heritage Hall at the Santa Cruz County Fairgrounds was packed with local leaders and farmers to celebrate the fruits — as well as vegetables and other crops — of ...

Wandering Stars author Tommy Orange and Martyr! author Kaveh Akbar teamed up for a Bay Area book tour this month, stopping at six independent bookstores and the East Bay Innovation Academy, a school ...

Friendship with a truly strange creature, plus Shark Girl’s conservation and a dinosaur’s pursuit of poetry: columnist ...

The 29-year-old singer and songwriter is set to release 'Forever Is a Feeling,' her first solo LP since breaking out as a ...

Amy Gerstler's 14th book of poetry, Is This My Final Form? comes out in April. One of its poems is about this change of ...

“Gone is the age of satire,” the speaker says, but this very poem, worthy of Swift, demonstrates that satire is, if dangerous ...

Author Shana Youngdahl reflects on her new YA novel, 'A Catalog of Burnt Objects,' inspired by the real-life destruction—both ...

Alicia Partnoy survived torture and violence as one of thousands of the 'disappeared' during Argentina’s political suppression and government violence in the 1970s. She shares advice with Californians ...

Actor Gabriel Olds is facing a life sentence in what prosecutors say was a string of terrifying sexual assaults on romantic ...

Reading Frost requires a kind of modesty and curiosity. Coming to this modesty has been a big part of my own experience with ...