Books are always piling up on the arts desk.

Behind the palest, least legible book cover of 2017 lies the year's most important release of writing by a gay man.

In his latest book "Flowers & Sky," prolific local San Francisco poet Aaron Shurin has produced a slim yet potent volume.

In author and musician Brontez Purnell's engrossing debut novel "Since I Laid My Burden Down," his protagonist returns home to the land of his childhood to rest and regroup.

Walter Isaacson's new "Leonardo da Vinci" (Simon and Schuster) is worthy of its subject.

Heads up for a lively new book that will appeal to food-lovers and Francophiles.

For more than 40 years, gay photographer Daniel Nicoletta has been a witness to, and a participant in, LGBT history, capturing iconic moments with his camera.