It’s just in the past 10 years that American movies have come to terms with slavery as an unalloyed evil. So it’s only now, after 100 years of feature films and a century and a half since the end of ...

Haley Bennett stars as Barbe-Nicole Ponsardin Clicquot, the woman who invented Champagne as we know it, in “Widow Clicquot.” Photo: Vertical More movies should be like “Widow Clicquot” — smart, ...

Fans who want to enjoy Outside Lands 2024 without the fog can once again livestream the San Francisco festival from home, thanks to a partnership with Amazon and Twitch. The three-day outdoor concert, ...

More than 200 former Great Dickens Christmas Fair participants are organizing a boycott, saying it has not done enough to address concerns from people of color.

Set in Maine, Elizabeth Strout’s “Tell Me Everything” is a generous, compassionate novel about the human need for connection, understanding and love, and the damage that occurs when those things are ...

When an Ethiopian American in Paris returns home for a reset, he finds only more mysteries about the immigrant experience and what we each call home.

The vintage Grateful Dead T-shirt sold for a record price through auction at Sotheby’s. Photo: Sotheby's An original Grateful Dead T-shirt from 1967 sold for $17,640 through Sotheby’s on Friday, Oct.

Chronicle reviewers pored over many books throughout the year from fiction to memoir, funny to sobering — here are their favorite reads of 2023 you don’t want to miss.

Keith Rosson’s “Fever House” adds a literary sensibility to catastrophic violence among tough guys in Oregon.

The expansion of the Asian Art Museum includes a new Akiko Yamazaki & Jerry Yang Pavilion, seen here in an artist’s rendering. Photo: Asian Art Museum San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum announced the ...

“Tomb Sweeping” is a canny title for Alexandra Chang’s eagerly anticipated second book. Chang, who is from San Francisco and now lives in Ventura County, uses her intriguing new short story collection ...

70 years after it was written in San Francisco, and later lost, the fabled Joan Anderson Letter shows how Cassady influenced Jack Kerouac's 'On the Road.' ...