Books

Dive in: 'Do Tell' and 'The Stolen Coast' are perfect summer escapes

Maureen Corrigan

Lindsay Lynch's luscious debut, Do Tell, is set in Hollywood's Golden Age. Dwyer Murphy's The Stolen Coast is a moody tale of a lawyer who makes his money ferrying people on the run into new lives.
Madhur Jaffrey's no fuss introduction to Indian cooking

Reena Advani

Michel Martin

Madhur Jaffrey says she never took cooking seriously, and it may be her secret to her success: "I love to eat and when you do, you think of all the possibilities."
Science & Technology

Thousands of authors urge AI companies to stop using work without permission

Chloe Veltman

Nora Roberts, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Michael Chabon and Margaret Atwood are among those signing an Authors Guild letter asking artificial intelligence companies to get permission or offer compensation.
Octavia Butler wrote a 'Parable' that became a prophecy — now it's also an opera

Anastasia Tsioulcas

Octavia Butler's novel Parable of the Sower — depicting a dystopian U.S. in 2024 — was published 30 years ago. Toshi Reagon's new musical retelling explores the web of past, present and future.
Arts & Culture

San Diego weekend arts events: Pride art, dance and a poetry contest

Julia Dixon Evans

This weekend in the arts: Lindsey Deaton receives the Larry T. Baza Arts and Culture Award at San Diego Pride and more.
Arts & Culture

Digital Gym Cinema has trio of treats for cinephiles

Beth Accomando

A book signing about “Cinema Ann Arbor,” Bruce Willis on 16mm and Bruce Lee!
Health

Why the crack cocaine epidemic hit Black communities 'first and worst'

Tonya Mosley

"We won't heal until we make sense of the crack epidemic," Donovan X. Ramsey says. His book, When Crack Was King, examines the drug's destructive path through the Black community.
Arts & Culture

Comic-Con panel recommendations for Sunday

Beth Accomando

Sunday features great kids' programming and a focus on women, plus the fantastic Starship Smackdown!
A lost world comes alive in 'Through the Groves,' a memoir of pre-Disney Florida

Maureen Corrigan

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Anne Hull grew up in the rural interior of Central Florida during the 1960s and '70s. Her memoir evokes a land of perfect citrus, and the cruel costs of its harvest.
In 'The Vegan,' a refreshing hedge-fund protagonist

Mary Childs

Andrew Lipstein achieves the difficult feat of realistically animating a hedge fund manager who talks and moves as real hedge fund managers might, but who is compelling and not overly alienating.