City Lights Booksellers & Publishers, Goethe Institut San Francisco, MIT Press, and Centre for International Security Studies at University of Sydney present For The Protection of All Beings: An inquiry […]

City Lights Booksellers & Publishers, Goethe Institut San Francisco, MIT Press, and Centre for International Security Studies at University of Sydney present For The Protection of All Beings: An inquiry […]

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz discusses her newly published book An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States (the 10th Anniversary Edition) By Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Published by Beacon Press City Lights and Beacon […]

City Lights and Litquake celebrate the publication of Justin Torres’s new novel Blackouts Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux From the bestselling author of We the Animals, Blackouts mines lost […]

City Lights and Liveright Books celebrate the publication of Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights By Dylan C Penningroth published by Liveright Books A prize-winning scholar […]

City Lights celebrates its 70th Year! Have you ever wondered about the origins of City Lights? Did you know there were two court cases in addition to the famous HOWL […]

Join us for a reading & signing of author Phoebe Wagner's newest book, A Shot of Gin. In A Shot of Gin, Juniper "Gin" Cain is pretty sure she's mostly […]

Celebrating Necessary Alternatives: An Evening with The 3rd Thing Join The 3rd Thing in virtual space to celebrate the emergence of this innovative press’s latest genre-bending offerings. City Lights hosts […]

Ayana Mathis reads from The Unsettled: a novel published by Alfred A Knopf From the best-selling author of The Twelve Tribes of Hattie, a searing multi-generational novel—set in the 1980s […]