Observable trends in this year's batch of Oscar-nominated narrative shorts include child endangerment, as usual, tending away from comedy, as usual, and being from…
When you look over your history of buying books, how do you feel? You should feel like hell. If you’ve bought even one book…
The malleability of David Mitchell’s voice is striking. Whether writing in hard-boiled slang, postapocalyptic pidgin, or from the perspective of a disenfranchised teen in…
One of the more renowned institutions of Bay Area journalism is to be found slightly more than hour's drive north of San Francisco, in…
Week of Wednesday, August 4, 2004
