Category: Reviews
The Other “Other” California
Gerald W. Haslam Growing up in an oilfield community at the southern end of the Great Central Valley, I for […]
Photography and Public Lands: Seeing Yosemite
A review of Nancy Robbins, A Sense of Yosemite, with essays by David Mas Masumoto. Yosemite National Park: Yosemite Conservancy, […]
Migracious Stories: Organize or Die
Fred B. Glass A review essay of Gabriel Thompson, America’s Social Arsonist: Fred Ross and Grassroots Organizing in the Twentieth […]
California from a Different Angle
Mike Miller A review of Fred B. Glass, From Mission to Microchip: A History of the California Labor Movement. Oakland: […]
The Great Thirst
A critical appreciation of Norris Hundley, Jr., by Jon Christensen
Saving a Piece of the Fair
New books on the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, reviewed by Elizabeth Logan.
California: Looking Forward—or Backward?
A critical appreciation, by Josh Stephens.
California Coast
New prints by Tom Killion.
The Atlas of California: Mapping the Challenge of a New Era
Explore Richard Walker and Suresh Lodha’s new atlas, which shows a new California in the making. It maps the economic, social, and political trends of a state struggling to maintain its leadership and to continue to offer its citizens the promise of prosperity.
