Nonfiction

• “Budgeting the Shark” by Tom Bissell: on the adaptation of Jaws from a best-selling novel (that might make you want to root for the shark) to a blockbuster movie celebrating its 50th anniversary this year.

• “Death, Ghosts, and the Golden Dream” by Keenan Norris: on the haunting death of a former student and colleague, teaching junior college, and San Jose’s Vietnamese community.

• “The Blue House” by Lauren Markham: on the “love-stricken days when the future hung before me like a flickering bulb and I saw only the otherworldly possibility of things at the expense of what was real.”

• “The May Queen” by Wesley Stace: The musician and novelist recounts his elderly mother’s unexpected and poignant reunion with her childhood love, the British composer Gavin Bryars.

• “Strange Attachment” by Frances Stroh: On being connected to San Francisco—viscerally and otherwise.

Fiction

• “The Street Artist” by Claudia Durastanti: Wherein being a gentrifier is a job with ever-changing expectations and roles.

• “The Farm” by Pepe Hernandez: First-time-in-print story about two brothers trying to make sense of the Cuban Revolution’s edicts.

Poetry

• Kazim Ali, Peter Campion, Ricardo Frasso Jaramillo, Sophia Le Fraga, Jesse Nathan, Dan O’Brien, and Alison Turner.

In Conversation

• Lucy Corin and Teresa Carmody unpack their work and their craft in perhaps the most singular interview we’ve published to date.

Art

• Miguel Arzabe