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Publisher’s Note:The Poet As a Storyteller
By Will Hearst
Real Truths About Homeschooling
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The Secret Waterways of Los Angeles
By Denise Hamilton
Swimming With Sharks
By Katharine Gammon
Utah’s Uranium King
By Julian Smith
A School for Indigenous Children Rewrites Its Charter
By Robert Ito
Discovering the Prehistoric West
By Robert Roper
Art Section
San Francisco Embraces Judy Chicago Again
By Bridget Quinn
Matt Black Photographs the Ubiquity of Poverty
By Jessica Zack
Alta Picks: California’s Off-the-Wall Art
By Jessica Blough, Nasim Ghasemiyeh, and Sarah Stodder
LACMA Reimagines Itself for the 21st Century
By Hunter Drohojowska-Philp
William T. Wiley, the Metaphysical Funk Monk
By Charles Desmarais
Q&A: Dave Hickey on the Problem With Art Critics
By Jim Lewis
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BOOK GUIDE: 83 Titles by ALTA JOURNAL Contributors
California Book Club’s Fall Authors on Why They Write
By Maxine Hong Kingston, Tommy Orange, and Héctor Tobar
Larry McMurtry’s Literature of Place
By David L. Ulin
Special Insert: The Last Books of Jim Harrison
The L.A. Women who champion Natural Wines
By Sydney Love
Finding Killer Texas BBQ in Orange County
By Gustavo Arellano
How Anna Halprin Changed Postmodern Dance
By Carla Blank
Fiction: “Sleep Nights”
By Blaise Zerega
The Visionary Behind Outdoor Afro
By Jessica Klein
