With the powerful writing technology of AI in the hands of entering students, how do instructors reapproach the teaching of writing in Berkeley's Reading & Composition courses?

Chi Rainer Bornfree and Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan met as doctoral students in UC Berkeley’s Rhetoric department. The friends became writing partners, collaborating on stories as they lived through the pandemic. The collaboration culminated in the publication of their 2025 memoir The End Doesn’t Happen All at Once.

Television writer and creator Sanjay Shah '99 discusses the realities of entertainment writing, from breaking into the industry to running a writers' room, offering advice to students.

Prominent Russian writer Victor Erofeev offers a provocative exploration of the “new barbarism” of the 21st century, in which power eclipses justice.