Organic Epicure
‘Technically Food’: how big tech puts new foods on our plates
Food coverage is supported by a generous donation from Susan and Moses Libitzky. Once you know Larissa Zimberoff’s backstory, it’s easy to understand how…
Books
'It deserves to exist': Stanford prof on Roth biography controversy
Books coverage is supported by a generous grant from The Milton and Sophie Meyer Fund. A Stanford University history professor and author of a…
Books
Grieving her dad, she wrote a novel and began swimming in the bay
Books coverage is supported by a generous grant from The Milton and Sophie Meyer Fund. When Rebecca Handler’s father died from Alzheimer’s in 2013, there…
Books
Otherness meets imagination in young adult fiction
Books coverage is supported by a generous grant from The Milton and Sophie Meyer Fund. Maggie Tokuda-Hall’s engaging picture book “Also an Octopus,”…
Off the Shelf
Dwell in the past with 2 new books, including Cynthia Ozick’s latest
Books coverage is supported by a generous grant from The Milton and Sophie Meyer Fund. Some of us prefer not to dwell on the past, while there are others…
Books
Palestinian peace activist chooses Bay Area writer to tell his life story
When a Palestinian peace activist who spent a decade in Israeli prison decides to share his life story, asking an American Jewish ally to write his…
History
Stanford begins work on massive digital Nuremberg archive
“When you see history happening, try to get a front-row seat.” That’s one of the life lessons that the late Edith Simon Coliver imparted to her daughters,…
Off the Shelf
New books: Survivors' grandkids grapple with trauma and silence
Books coverage is supported by a generous grant from The Milton and Sophie Meyer Fund. The writings of the grandchildren of Holocaust survivors frequently…
Books
Highly anticipated Philip Roth biography delivers the goods
Books coverage is supported by a generous grant from The Milton and Sophie Meyer Fund. In the autumn of 1960, Philip Roth traveled to the Bay Area to…