Levitin explores masculinity, Hooper embellishes Dorothea Lange, and Forti debuts her first album.

The Bay Area author’s third novel — a work of historical fiction — relates to her own family history.

In the The Art of Dying Well: A Practical Guide to a Good End of Life, author and Bay Area journalist Katy Butler pools her infinitely practical and deeply human expertise to coach people on the end of their lives.

Fans of the Grateful Dead, natural foods, and rock ’n’ roll have music and books to dig into this month.

The UC associate professor’s first novel, ‘The Old Drift,’ echoes the styles of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Toni Morrison.

The Marin writer uses jokes, celebrities, historical events, and events on the streets of New York to create a book you wish would never end.

The Palo Alto author’s debut novel, ‘Hear and Now and Then,’ is a contemporary sci-fi adventure story with a literary bent.

An expanded and more complete edition of Always Going Home releases as the bio doc Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin makes screening rounds, further elevating her posthumous reputation.

It’s a major media pop culture mash-up with a huge cast of talent spanning The New York Times and Slate to Texas Monthly and The New York Review of Books.

Readers will be horrified about how inept the president’s appointments to major agencies have been.