Author Elizabeth Reed Aden stands for a portrait at her home in Berkeley on July 3. Her debut novel, “The Goldilocks Genome,” published in May. Photo: Jessica Christian/The Chronicle While researching ...

Brady Corbet’s ambitious “The Brutalist,” about a post-World War II architect, challenges the way Hollywood makes movies.

Haley Bennett stars as Barbe-Nicole Ponsardin Clicquot, the woman who invented Champagne as we know it, in “Widow Clicquot.” Photo: Vertical More movies should be like “Widow Clicquot” — smart, ...

“The Four Seasons” was a 1981 film about growing old together, not only with one’s spouse but also alongside one’s dearest friends. Yet, while the new Netflix adaptation brings together a new cast of ...

More than 200 former Great Dickens Christmas Fair participants are organizing a boycott, saying it has not done enough to address concerns from people of color.

San Francisco's hub for first-run art house movies, which first opened in 1995, will close after this week, sources tell The Chronicle.

School Library Journal Librarian of the Year Amanda Jones came under fierce personal attack in 2022 when she spoke out against book bans.

His appointment comes at a time when the organization must restore confidence in the continuity of its leadership — the entrance to the director’s office has been a virtual revolving door for the past ...

Set in Maine, Elizabeth Strout’s “Tell Me Everything” is a generous, compassionate novel about the human need for connection, understanding and love, and the damage that occurs when those things are ...

The In-N-Out hamburger chain is sizzling mad after San Francisco shut down its indoor dining for refusing to check customers’ vaccination status. Photo: Adam Lau / Associated Press When San ...

The doctors who were in the emergency room with Kennedy counter the Lee Harvey Oswald lone gunman theory in the latest documentary about the assassination.

When an Ethiopian American in Paris returns home for a reset, he finds only more mysteries about the immigrant experience and what we each call home.