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10 Books to Read This Summer

Deep Cuts Holly Brickley ’02 This debut novel from Cal alum Holly Brickley opens at a Berkeley bar, just “blocks from campus” (Triple Rock? Kip’s? Larry Blake’s? It’s fun to guess) sometime in the early aughts. Protagonist Percy Marks and fellow student Joey Murrow bond over beers and banter about the fine points of whatever’s […]

Clayton Cone

Clay Cone ’82 writes: Ode to Ned and Jack Against Stanford University, even the Guanos (Cal’s third and fourth rugby teams) had an important part to play: to begin a three-game same-day Big Game sweep with a victory in the first game of the day . . . in 1982, played at the old California […]

Jose Hernandez Diaz

Jose Hernandez Diaz ’11 has published a new poetry book, Portrait of the Artist as a Brown Man, winner of the Benjamin Saltman Award, with Red Hen Press.

Nadia Shihab

Filmmaker Nadia Shihab, MCP ’09, MFA ’21, was awarded a 2025 Guggenheim Fellowship in the Creative Arts (Film/Video).

_{UC Regents}

My Old Guy Master’s Piece

By Robert Strauss

“A lot of my people at home have had good retirements, but none of them got to spend it with 25-year-olds.”

Steven Hendlin

Steven J. Hendlin ’71 has been practicing psychotherapy as a licensed clinical psychologist in Newport Beach, California, for the last 50 years. He continues seeing patients both in his office and online at age 76. At Berkeley, he was distracted by but immersed in the political, counter-cultural, and social activities taking place, including sitting in […]

_Midjourney

Q&A: Saving Democracy

By Tom Kertscher

Professor of Democracy Lucan Way says the U.S. has entered a period of competitive authoritarianism.

_{Grant Kerber, UC Berkeley Department of Music}

Berkeley’s Music Boom

By Emma Silvers

A curriculum overhaul and a post-pandemic need to reconnect have made music Cal’s fastest-growing major.

Punk singer leans toward the camera while performing in Sproul Plaza

_{Special Forces perform during an anti-apartheid, pro-divestment protest. 1985, Sproul Plaza. Photo by Murray Bowles.}

Books to Check Out This Month

By Editorial Staff

The punk photography of Murray Bowles, Joan Didion’s psychotherapy notes, and more.

Painting: A painter holding a palette stands in a rustic hallway

_{The Son. Photo by Heather Rasmussen. Courtesy of Gallery Wendi Norris}

5 Questions for Enrique Martínez Celaya, M.S. ’88

By Emily Wilson

The artist reflects on science, exile, and the messiness of life.

Cardinals in red vestments at the Vatican

_{St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican. Photo by Maria Grazia Picciarella/Alamy Live News.}

The Secretive Politics of Electing the Next Pope

By Leah Worthington

Historian Thomas Dandelet on how Pope Francis’s successor will shape the future of the Catholic Church.

_{Dancers of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater perform "Sacred Songs" by Matthew Rushing. ©Paul Kolnik}

Feeling the Dance

By Leah Worthington

Blind patrons experience Alvin Ailey through sound and touch

_{Nathalia Alcantara}

Mixed Media: April 2025

By Editorial Staff

Berkeley-grown works we recommend this month

Parking lot at Home Depot in North Haven, Connecticut appears less crowded than usual

_{February 28. ZUMA Press, Inc./Alamy Live News}

What If We Stopped Shopping?

By Leah Worthington

A conversation with Lawrence Glickman M.A. ’89, Ph.D. ’92., on economic blackouts and consumer activism

David R. Fuller ’53, J.D. ’56

David Fuller ’53, J.D. ’56, writes: “I have to thank my older Brother, Everett (Bud) E. Fuller ’45 for sponsoring me as a Sigma Phi Pledge, thus enabling me to enjoy seven years as a Cal fraternity member from 1949 to 1956, and provide a very exciting and fulfilling college experience. Cal at that time […]

Joseph Godlewski

Joseph Godlewski ’15 published his newest book The Architecture of the Bight of Biafra: Spatial Entanglements with Routledge Press. Based on fieldwork and archival research conducted during his time at Cal, the book examines the intersection of race and the built environment in the region now known as southeastern Nigeria. Enmeshed in the history of […]

Susan T. Ye

Susan T. Ye ’07, an attorney in the San Jose office of Littler, the world’s largest employment and labor law practice representing management, has been elevated to shareholder, effective January 1, 2025. Across its U.S., Mexico and Singapore offices, the firm elevated 28 attorneys to shareholder status. Ye’s practice focuses on representing and advising employers […]

Christina G. Cordoza

Christina G. Cordoza ’85, an attorney in the Walnut Creek office of Littler, the world’s largest employment and labor law practice representing management, has been elevated to shareholder, effective January 1, 2025. Across its U.S., Mexico and Singapore offices, the firm elevated 28 attorneys to shareholder status. Cordoza is a trusted legal adviser to business […]

Jessica Bernardini

Miller Nash welcome Jessica Bernardini, M.S. ’07, to the firm’s environmental team. Bernardini, based in the firm’s Portland office, focuses her practice on providing clients with regulatory advice and representation in energy and environmental law matters. “I’m excited about joining Miller Nash,” says Bernardini. “It’s evident that I have the support of knowledgeable and experienced […]