Sophia Wang is a mother, a mammal, and a person who knows about bioengineering human breast milk. In “Mama Mammalian” she examines breastfeeding as work, as pleasure, and as a beautiful supply chain of two. Featuring Summoners Cards by Craig Calderwood (@craigcalderwood.bsky.social).

"Make money, they all say. But I like stuff money can't buy. Getting out of my head. Reading, writing, drawing. Imagining that this place is special and mine. I can leave at any time." Rod Roland in @sfreviewofwhatever.bsky.social

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In “We Portrait Together,” Anne Walsh (A) reviews IF AN ELSEWHERE (The Burrow), a layered, allegorical collaboration between artist Cybele Lyle (C) and poet Jocelyn Saidenberg (J). Walsh’s idiosyncratic and loving tactics demonstrate that “there are so many ways to write and read.”

In “The Magic Is Here, I Saw It,” poet Christina Svenson delivers an efflorescent review of Soft Core, the novel by performer and local hero, Brittany Newell. To read SAN FRANCISCO REVIEW OF THREE BOOKS SO FAR, order Issue Two here: sfrw.square.site/product/issu...

"The energy of San Francisco is always directed outward, never to return. It would be too much for a city to keep." ❤️ Rod Roland's review (history, memoir) of skateboarding in the new @sfreviewofwhatever.bsky.social

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“I Feel Safe in San Francisco” is a delicate, ranging, topographic memoir by skateboarder-poet Rod Roland, featuring photography by Reggie Guerrero (@meadowy.bsky.social) and a new poem by Tenaya Nasser-Frederick and Rod Roland.

SFRW’s resident Ad Reinhardt (if he were more Ohioan), Kate Rhoades (@katerhoades.bsky.social) made another cartoon about the kinds of objects you might encounter in an art gallery. To read SAN FRANCISCO REVIEW OF ART, order Issue Two here: sfrw.square.site/product/issu...

SFGATE has the Issue Two party report! www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...

By way of A Streetcar Named Desire and The Simpsons, Beatrice Kilat (@beatrick.bsky.social) weighs the risks and chances for love in her debut column: “Ask Bea.” She also considers the chihuahua. To read SOME GOOD ADVICE, order Issue Two here: sfrw.square.site/product/issu...

In “Escolar: Creation of Space,” Cole Hersey visits an art gallery in a shipping container in the suburbs. Our penchant for shipping container topics carries on. To read SAN FRANCISCO REVIEW OF LAND USE, order Issue Two here: sfrw.square.site/product/issu...

"Generally I find it easy to have an opinion than not. They come unbidden, like all the rest of the senses." Our comrades at @sfreviewofwhatever.bsky.social, we at ORB see you:

As of later today when I get my act over to the East Bay, SFRW Issue Two will be in stock at: Black Bird Bookstore and Cafe, Et al. books, Green Apple on the Park, Park Life, Scenic Routes Community Bicycle Center, East Bay Booksellers, Pegasus Books (downtown Berkeley), and Bathers Library

Robert Glück is a poet, essayist, and novelist who co-founded the New Narrative movement. Emily Harter is a painter, printmaker, and sometimes-tattooist whose images are “ruled by cartoon logic.” Forget all that because in Issue Two they’re in conversation about ceramics.

In “Vaillancourt Fountain,” skateboarder and art historian Ted Barrow situates everyone’s favorite fountain, currently under threat of redevelopment, on the past and future Embarcadero. To read SAN FRANCISCO REVIEW OF A FOUNTAIN, order Issue Two here: sfrw.square.site/product/issu...

Thanks for being there! More photos, more details about issue two, and magazines in the mail 🔜

SAN FRANCISCO REVIEW OF WHATEVER ISSUE TWO RELEASE PARTY REMINDER! TOMORROW, Thursday, August 28, at 6 p.m. onward, at Et al., 2831A Mission Street. There will be readings with an element of chance! And pizza and beers, and whatever else turns up. See you tomorrow! Looking forward. xx

As dawn breaks, a magazine appears in the wizard's mailbox.

Issue Two has arrived from the printer! Featuring work by @beatrick.bsky.social, @craigcalderwood.bsky.social, @katerhoades.bsky.social, @meadowy.bsky.social, @quonky.bsky.social, and many others. Orders will go out 🔜 sfrw.square.site

It's here 🌝

hey if you’re missing a pair of brown blundstones they’re sitting on the freeway center divide of 580N right before the richmond bridge

By the way here is an upcoming opportunity to hang out and think good thoughts about each other. Issue Two Release Party, Thursday, August 28, at Et al., 6 p.m. onward 🌝

🙌 “San Francisco Review of Whatever publishes essays and artwork by (mostly) Bay Area contributors, who are artists, farmers, teachers, and poets. Our topics are the usual and unusual critical subjects. This is a print magazine, releasing three issues per year.”

It's happening! It's going to look like this! More on the inner aspects 🔜

Issue Two is coming this summer! San Francisco reviews many things, like skateboarding, art in the suburbs, ceramics, advice, everyone’s favorite fountain, tomatoes, and not one but TWO books. And more! Subscribe anytime at the link in our bio.

We cohosted a party last week to celebrate The Back Room, Small Press Traffic's online publication that just wrapped up. Camille Roy read her long poem that is the final TBR commission, and Katherine Ross Ward previewed SFRW Issue Two (tomatoes, pictured). Thanks everyone who came! That was fun!

We have a new contributing editor! You may remember her essay in Issue One about Donald Judd’s rectangles, the shipping container fortress in Berkeley, bird nets, Running Fence, and more. Welcome Kelly Pendergrast (@kellypendergrast.bsky.social).

Oh yeah here's the link: sfreview.org/about/#adver... Surely there's something you want, or want to share, or even a short poem.

A good use of $20 would be to place a classified ad in Issue 2 of @sfreviewofwhatever.bsky.social. Not only can you solicit friendship, sex, fruit, tools — you can be part of cultural history. Imagine, in 2084, a post-jackpot historian reading ur ad & wondering about the world you inhabited.

You can solicit sex LEGALLY 🌝

We're co-hosting a party to celebrate The Back Room, Small Press Traffic's online publishing project. June 9 at Cushion Works! See you 🔜 www.smallpresstraffic.org/event/the-ba...

Classified ad submissions for Issue Two are due on May 20! Are you looking for love? To share important information? Do you have or need something? Submit a classified 🌝 airtable.com/appEhjxTGPsR...

It's Sunday ... good time to ponder your problems and send them to us

let's talk 🤓

Do you need help? Ask @beatrick.bsky.social. Areas of expertise: dogs / money / life, death / closet space / ceramics / utensils / kitchens / time management / having a drink / putting it down / want vs need / upkeep (general). Send your question to: [email protected] Subject line: Please Advise

Magazines are back in stock at Et al. books and Green Apple in the Park 🌝 We are close to sold out, so Issue One is no longer for sale on the website. New subscribers will still receive it for now!

in an orange tree, it's Whatever ty @sfreviewofwhatever.bsky.social for a pleasing thing full of good words

Another nice sentence made it to @lifewinning.com's Perfect Sentences :) Yes SFRW is for dads

The review is once again back in stock at East Bay Booksellers!

Reviews are restocked at Et al. books / gallery in the Mission and at East Bay Booksellers in Oakland!

It's your favorite magazine's favorite magazine's favorite newsletter

Really lovely to find ourselves in two of the best newsletters out there: @lifewinning.com's Perfect Sentences and @robinsloan.com's TRESSPASSERS. Sign yourselves up if you're not on that already! buttondown.com/perfectsente... + www.robinsloan.com/newsletters/...

Sean McFarland provided the CLOUD INTERLUDE for Issue One. This cyanotype is excerpted from Cloud Book (2023). To look at SAN FRANCISCO REVIEW OF CLOUDS, subscribe to the review for a year or purchase Issue One here sfreview.org ⚫️

Thank you for coming to our Issue! One! 2025! Party! Thank you to our brilliant speakers for being so great. Thank you to Et al. for seeding the audience with attentive sculptures. Thank you to all the magazine contributors for giving this project form. We’re looking forward to next time!

Jordan Stein approached our assignment, to write about coming home to San Francisco, by giving himself another. He'd climb one of our hills and record his extemporaneous observations. “A Jack Spicer–type transmission” results in his warm, elevated text: "The Signal."