Literature

The white cover of an artist book with a sepia-toned drawing of an eye next to a row of several vials labeled things like,

Arts & culture

Artists’ books shine in new exhibit at the UC Berkeley Library

The Book as Art exhibit will run through February in Doe Library.

Close up of Alisha Gaines

Arts & culture

Berkeley Talks: Reconsidering Black America’s relationship to the plantation

Jeff MacKie-Mason, dressed in all black, sits on a couch and smiles for a portrait

Arts & culture

Jeff MacKie-Mason has seen the future of libraries

Arts & culture

Off-script at Berkeley: How one graduate made a home on campus apart from her twin

Two images side by side: The first is a book cover of The Ministry for the Future; second is Kim Stanley Robinson holding a mic while giving a talk

Berkeley Talks: Sci-fi writer Kim Stanley Robinson on the need for ‘angry optimism’

Saagar, with short dark hair and glasses, wearing a powder blue suit, holds a viola to his chin while standing in a courtyard

Berkeley Voices: Medieval song holds clues to lost dialects

Poulomi Saha

Berkeley Talks: Poulomi Saha on why we’re so obsessed with cults

Ishion Hutchinson

Berkeley Talks: Poet Ishion Hutchinson reads ‘The Mud Sermon’ and other poems

a student sits surrounded by tall grass reading a book

UC Berkeley summer reading list for new students

images of three book covers: one that reads

Check out this year’s Library picks of books by LGBTQ+ authors

a book cover that reads

UC Berkeley alum Hua Hsu wins 2023 Pulitzer Prize

two book covers: one has the title

Library reading list: Great books by Black authors

book cover of

Berkeley Talks: Adriana Green and Nadia Ellis discuss ‘The Yellow House’

person with a serious expression

Berkeley Talks: Poet Alex Dimitrov reads from ‘Love and Other Poems’

black and white portrait of a person holding up two fingers to frame his eye

Berkeley Talks: Novelist Ilija Trojanow on the utopian prerogative

photo of a person next to a cover of a book called Interior Chinatown

Author Charles Yu: ‘Interior Chinatown’ is about roles and how we play them