The Brooklyn author on immigration and the inspiration behind his latest collection of stories
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‘Dangerously hot conditions’: millions in US west prepare for extreme heatwave ⊖
Heat warnings are in effect across region as record-high temperatures are forecast in California, Nevada and Arizona
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32 days ago
‘She is our hero’: Oakland celebrates Alysa Liu after Olympics triumph ⊕⊕
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After earning gold in Milan, local figure-skating icon accepts a key to the city at a celebration of local artists
Nearly 5,000 people gathered in Oakland on Thursday afternoon to celebrate local her…
46 days ago
Bird flu kills dozens of elephant seal pups at California state park ⊖⊖
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About 30 seals had died as of Thursday, nearly all of them weaned pups, amid the rise of avian influenza
An outbreak of a highly pathogenic strain of bird flu has killed more than two dozen elephant s…
62 days ago
Two transgender teens who attend same Bay Area high school die by suicide 10 months apart ⊖⊖
Summer Devi Mehta, 17, died by suicide just months after her best friend and fellow classmate died the same way.
63 days ago
Bad Bunny and jingoism lite: was this the Super Bowl where woke roared back? ⊕⊕
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The NFL appeared keen to welcome the sport’s non-Maga contingent back into the tent. But the theater and violence of capitalism was still there
Roger Federer smiling wolfishly to the crowd: a return t…
64 days ago
Kendall Jenner, Justin and Hailey Bieber and Jay-Z lead star-studded Super Bowl crowd as A-listers pack Levi's Stadium ⊕
Celebrities flocked to the Bay Area on Sunday as football's biggest night took over Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California, with luxury suites and sideline seats packed wall to wall with A-listers.
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‘I find it all a bit comforting’: why Zodiac is my feelgood movie ⊖
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The first 2026 entry in our ongoing series of writers calling attention to their comfort films is David Fincher’s thriller
It begins with a murder, and then another. A woman is killed, a man grievousl…
High tides and heavy rain flood parts of California’s Bay Area ⊖
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King tides cause highest floodwaters in decades for area, while people are rescued from trapped cars and roads close
High tides and heavy rains have flooded parts of the Bay Area, prompting road closu…
What rhymes with la la la, la la la la la? Kevin Killian, the poet obsessed with Kylie Minogue ⊕
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He wrote poems named after Kylie songs and named his collection of erotic fiction after her indie album. He even loved the B-sides. So what did the avant garde writer find so inspiring about the mini…