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books and culture Escaping Only So Far Why do Americans gravitate to young-adult literature—stories of heroes vanquishing the shadowy forces governing their dystopian worlds? Arts and Culture The Social Order Cultural historian Robert Darnton famously argued that “world views cannot be chronicled in the manner of political events, but they are no less ‘real.’ Politics could not take place without the preliminary mental ordering that goes into the common-sense notion of the real world.” To discover the “preliminary mental ordering” of seventeenth- and eighteenth-...

When Rebecca Handler’s father died from Alzheimer’s in 2013, there were, “unsurprisingly given our family, moments of hilarity,” the San Francisco writer recalls. She was in the room with her mother and her brother, Daniel, waiting to witness their loved one’s last breath and the stillness that followed. But instead, what came were false starts, as each last breath became another last breath. And then another. Comic relief had entered that sacred space. And it wasn’t all that strange. For the Handlers, like many Jewish families, humor is an organizing principle of family life. The...

John Brandon’s new novel, Ivory Shoals, is his fifth book — joining the novels Arkansas, Citrus County, A Million Heavens , and the story collecti...

Total SF Book Club’s new selection is “The End of the Golden Gate,” featuring 25...

Playing by the rules: Coming to America 24th May 2021 | By Susan Hensel Susan Hensel tackles the myth of a single US gaming market in her latest column, explaining why it is incumbent upon newcomers to understand - and accept - the differences from state to state if they are to thrive. “ Lemony Snicket, pen name of bestselling author, Daniel Handler. There is a myth about gaming in America and that myth is all the bigger, it seems, in the age of mobile wagering. I have heard it referenced in my many interactions with international companies interested in bringing their products to America ...