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T. S. Eliot, somewhere in the Four Quartets, says, “hope would be hope for the wrong thing…” As the world careens towards a cliff, to use a cliché of contemporary conversations about a future that is increasingly the most urgent item on all agendas, hope for the wrong things springs eternal.

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I read a lot of books, which means I also read a lot of book reviews. And some are classics. They’re essays of a certain type, after all, and there are great essays, so why not great book reviews? John Banvilles’s take-down of Ian McEwan’s Saturday in The New York Review of Books several years…

José M. Riascos is a professor of Marine Ecology at Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia and an associate researcher at Corporation Center of Excellence in Marine Sciences (https://www.jmriascos.space/). His research interests include the dynamics of coastal ecosystems and their responses to the effects of human impacts and extreme weather conditions. Prof Riascos recently joined our Section Editorial board.

There is no indication at all that Mr Diko has read my book The fall of white domination is not the fall of UCT. He appears to judge it by its title.

“As I look at my photos now,” George Stranahan once said, “I think that perhaps they are the serious work of my life.” Here we look back the creative legacy as a photographer that Stranahan left behind when he died last month at age 89.

... Marin native Hopper Penn (son of Robin Wright and Sean Penn) stars alongside Paz de la Huerta in Puppy Love, which closes out SF Indiefest this February. In its 23rd year, SF Indiefest is stronger than ever By Jan 26, 2021 The 2021 San Francisco Independent Film Festival, aka Indiefest, features a smattering of Bay Area cinematic talent among its 80 independent films. Here are a few to watch. Oakland filmmaker Rodrigo Reyes will be awarded this years Vanguard Award fo...

Realized that he had been shot and that he was laying there in a puddle of blood. >> the site of kings assassination is not preserved as part of the national civil rights museum. >> he captured the human predicament in a way that few are able to capture. >> kings youngest daughter, bernice, to word a new exhibit honoring her fathers life. as of monday, she comes to this place not just to remember what happened half a century ago, but to celebrate the enduring impact king continues to have on ame...