About
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.
The boundaries between life and art are porous. An artwork is a fragment, chipped out of its context. It is an idea and a type of record. The person who observes it and responds from their mirrored position is a critic. This is a point of contact, and a clarifying, communal act. Sometimes the mediating object is neither a song nor a sculpture, but there is still an audience. We think criticism can describe the world as it is and pursue the utopic without mythologizing.
How does San Francisco feel on the ground? What does the rest of the world look like from the Bay? Nothing is as fixed as it seems.
San Francisco Review of Whatever seeks dynamic perspectives on any topic—the arts or whatever—by experienced writers and by people who think of themselves primarily in other ways. We are interested in practitioners. We are used to describing each others’ work, as it relates to our own, in conversation with friends, as a way to understand the moment.
We know you know something we don’t. Let’s form connective tissue. We are timely if not time-sensitive. We would like to experiment with the review form. Let’s rotate expectations by 45 degrees. This is a conversation. You are smart and attentive. We love beautiful ideas. Everyone is a critic.
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San Francisco Review of Whatever sells ads and classifieds that appear in our print issues. Generally ads are for organizations and businesses, and classifieds are for individuals.
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Classified ads are text-only messages that start at $1 per word with a twenty word minimum. We want our classifieds to be like the bulletin board at our local grocery co-op: useful and weird.
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Elisabeth Nicula, editor
Christa Hartsock, operations
Jim Fingal, publishing director