A look inside Alta Journal’s Issue 34.

This week’s bestselling titles include Hidden Potential by Adam Grant, The Long Game by Rachel Reid, and What We Can Know by Ian McEwan.

A doomed debut at the Rendezvous Ballroom didn’t stop the Beach Boys. Instead, it helped launch sunshine pop—a California sound full of shimmer, shadows, and ambition.

Berkeley, the legendary epicenter of political activism, finds itself the birthplace of another movement: the black-clad protestors known as the “antifa,” scourge of right-wing commentators