Book Review | ‘Brought To You By: How Corporations Warped the Truth, Conned the Public, and Broke Democracy’ by Amy Westervelt
An exploration of how our information ecosystem is polluted and what we can do about it.
Author: Brian Tanguay
Book Review | ‘California Dreams: The Making and Remaking of the University of California’ by Miriam Pawel
Understanding the state by understanding the university. This superb new history of the UC system links an important piece of California’s history.
Book Review | ‘American Alt: A True Story of Madness and Friendship in a Fractured Country’ by Chris Lockhart
An odyssey of two friends and multiple voices.
Book Review | ‘Breathing Is How Some People Stay Alive: Stories’ by Alison Gadsby
Swimming into a sea of aquatic short stories.
Book Review | ‘Agnes Lives!’ by Hallie Elizabeth Newton
A New York socialite searches for someone to kill her.
Book Review | ‘The Art of Becoming a Citizen: a Memoir’ by Gail Godwin
Purposely intertwining the past and the present into a wide-lens reflection on the meaning of being a citizen.
Book Smart
Santa Barbara’s first literary festival offers a feast for story lovers of all kinds.
Book Review | ‘Honeysuckle’ by Bar Fridman-Tell
Equal parts fairytale and nightmare, an engaging debut novel is both compelling and disturbing.
Book Review | ‘The Body Builders’ by Albertine Clarke
A work of speculative fiction that makes the reader unsure of what is and isn’t real.
Book Review | ‘Railsong: A Novel’ by Rahul Bhattacharya
The intimate journey of an independent, motherless girl.
