“I know boundaried communities that produce good fruit. But when I look at tribalism, which is excluding and saying anybody not within this boundary is going to hell, the fruits of that aren’t lovely. They aren’t nourishing. I’d rather be a pantheist.”

Political reporters have the statehouse. Sportswriters, the ballpark. But where do journalists covering psychedelic drugs go to cover their beat?

“I like it much better than ‘religious’ or ‘spiritual’ — to be a seeker after the sacred or the holy, which ends up for me being the really real.”

– Rev. Barbara Brown Taylor

Little, Brown’s Tracy Sherrod took world rights at auction to Amy Bowers Cordalis’s Child of Big Water. Cordalis, a member of the Yurok Tribe in California, was represented by Mark Tauber at the Watermark Agency. The publisher said the book—subtitled Indigenous Resistance, Resilience and Stewardship, How a Tribe and a Family Fought to Win the World’s Biggest River Restoration Project—tells the story, through the voices of Cordalis’s family, of “a century of her tribe’s subjugation and the battle they took upon themselves to... rescue their heritage.” Members of the tribe have been fighting government agencies for decades over the damming of irrigation waters, and last year Congress ordered that a dam be removed from the Klamath River. Child of Big Water is slated for December 2024.

Five luminaries, including Abby Wambach and Jay Shetty, offer their takes on this month’s topic: devotion.

The sudden popularity of the hoodlike head covering has spurred a comparison to hijabs.

Publishing veteran Mark Tauber has announced the launch of the Watermark Agency. Most recently founder and managing director of Chronicle’s Prism nonfiction imprint and of Chronicle Audio, Tauber has been in publishing for more than 25 years.

Tauber said his new firm “will develop and represent projects from writers, journalists, public intellectuals, authors, leaders, and credentialed experts in their fields.”

“Humans crave the experience of transformation and resolution through form and structure. It is emotionally satisfying.”

Rupert Murdoch sells topless Page 3 girls to England, and he sells “fair and balanced” television commentary to America. But until last week, his most eccentric product was Beliefnet.com.

My wife always tells me, 'Mark, you have two speeds—zero and 10,’ says Mark Tauber, 39, publisher at HarperOne. That top speed has served him well in a career that began in book publishing and detoured to help launch two still-thriving Internet startups, bringing him back to publishing and to a city he has always loved.

A witch blessed the offices of HarperOne when the publishing house moved to San Francisco's Financial District a decade ago.

In the '90s, it made sense. The publisher had just scored an international bestseller with "How to Turn Your Ex-Boyfriend Into a Toad," a self-help book masquerading as a collection of magic spells.