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

The author hailed the UC Berkeley Library multimedia project, which has an uncertain future after the termination of funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, as "one of the great scholarly achievements of our time."

Daniel Handler and Chanan Tigay talk on stage at an event for the Magnes' inaugural Jewish Arts & Bookfest

Arts & culture

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

Two images side by side: on the left, two knights fight each other on horseback; on the right, the knight ask a woman for forgiveness after he killed her husband

Arts & culture

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

An image of the Pulitzer Prize medal shows the front and the back. The medal is gold, with the image of Ben Franklin on one side and on the back is someone operating a printing press.

Arts & culture

Six UC Berkeley alumni named 2025 Pulitzer Prize winners

about a dozen covers of books in the 2025 summer reading list

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

two images side by side: on the left, the cover of the book Open Socrates and on the right, Judith Butler and Agnes Callard in a conversation

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

Fiona McFarlane holds an award for The Story Prize and smiles

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

Fiona McFarlane juxtaposed next to the cover of her book Highway 13

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

Two young girls sit closely together in this scene from the HBO series

No. 1 book of the century, ‘My Brilliant Friend’, is subject of UC Berkeley research, courses

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,

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

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

Jeff MacKie-Mason has seen the future of libraries

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

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