First published in Spain in the summer of 1929, Concerning the Angels (Sobre los angeles) is the ...

'[M]esmerizing ... When his international images are paired with his sparse, poetic words—sometim...

With the great Renaissance voyages to the New World came the popularity of Wunderkammern, or cabi...

A book of Allen Ginsberg's literary conversations 1967-1977, including his encounters with Ezra P...

Inspired by the pre-Hispanic codices that escaped immolation during colonial invasions, this arti...

A novel about the life of German cabaret singer and film actress Ingrid Caven, who was once direc...

Race is, and always has been, an explosive issue in the United States. In this timely new book, T...

Tears of Eros is the culmination of Georges Bataille's inquiries into the relationship between vi...

This illustrated book traces the history of an unlikely force in the shaping of Western civilizat...

Allen Ginsberg was a serious shutterbug who delighted in taking candid snapshots of friends and f...

A City Lights Italian Voices Book

Enigmatic and multi-layered, Islanders is about finding one’s own hard-won truth. A young man’s i...

In conjunction with the San Francisco Public Library, poet laureate devorah major made a public a...

Since the publication of Our Word Is Our Weapon--which Publishers Weekly described as 'strong as ...

We have entered the age of 'peep culture': a tell-all, show-all, know-all digital phenomenon that...

Indigenous societies throughout Latin America are facing difficult choices. After centuries of co...

A historian’s nostalgic trip to a series of local daytrip sites takes an unexpected turn as she e...

The letters of Lew Welch and the correspondence of his friends.

'A contact bomb, a volcano ready to erupt' describes not only Central America in the 1980s but—in...

During the early days of the Second World War, the Catalán painter, Joan Miró, created a startlin...

Reclaiming San Francisco is an anthology of fresh appraisals of the contrarian spirit of the city...

In 'Gypsy Lore,' one of 19 stories in Janice Eidus's new collection, The Celibacy Club, 15-year-o...