Literature

UC Berkeley Summer Reading List: Books that bring us together

This year’s selection features 20 works of fiction and nonfiction that explore the theme of mutuality through stories of interdependence, shared experience and collective resilience.

Law

Voices Carry: Savala Nolan on ‘Good Woman: A Reckoning’ - Audio

Arts & culture

Why we still can’t get enough of Shakespeare after all these centuries

Arts & culture

Berkeley Talks: How 17th-century moveable scenery shaped modern theater - Audio

This Berkeley professor is exposing the hidden physical toll of our digital world

In new African lit exhibit, stories challenge and enchant

What counts as ‘Asian American literature,’ anyway?

‘Biographers heaven’: Ron Chernow spotlights Mark Twain Papers & Project amid funding crisis

Berkeley Talks: Daniel Handler (aka Lemony Snicket) on reading the authors you want to write like - Audio

Why did medieval readers kiss, smudge and deface their books?

Six UC Berkeley alumni named 2025 Pulitzer Prize winners

This year’s UC Berkeley summer reading list theme? Generosity

Berkeley Talks: The case for a philosophical life, with Agnes Callard and Judith Butler - Audio

English Professor Fiona McFarlane’s ‘Highway Thirteen’ wins The Story Prize

In 12 short stories, ‘Highway Thirteen’ traces the ripple effects of one man’s violence

Berkeley Talks: Poet Ocean Vuong on disobedience and the power of language - Audio

All Literature