Hannah Bae

1 month ago | datebook.sfchronicle.com | Hannah Bae

The politics of immigration are always present in the life and writing of Jill Damatac, author of the memoir “Dirty Kitchen.”

1 month ago | datebook.sfchronicle.com | Hannah Bae

Steve Carell as Nick, from left, Kerri Kenney as Anne, Tina Fey as Kate, Colman Domingo as Danny, Marco Calvani as Claude, and Will Forte as Jack in the Netflix series “The Four Seasons.” Photo: Netflix/Courtesy of Netflix“The Four Seasons” was a 1981 film about growing old together, not only with one’s spouse but also alongside one’s dearest friends. Yet, while the new Netflix adaptation brings together a new cast of aging stars, it’s not the bodies onscreen that feel dated.

2 months ago | datebook.sfchronicle.com | Hannah Bae

Berkeley author Bonnie Tsui Photo: Brontë Wittpenn/S.F. ChronicleMuscles fit together to form an exquisite mosaic within every human body.

2 months ago | sfchronicle.com | Hannah Bae

By necessity and with a great deal of ingenuity, Koreans over time have mastered the art of turning found remnants into stunning works of art. One traditional art form, jogakbo, or patchwork sewing, features prominently in “The Wedding Banquet,” Korean American director Andrew Ahn’s hilarious remake of Taiwanese filmmaker Ang Lee’s groundbreaking 1993 queer romantic comedy by the same name. “The Wedding Banquet”: Romantic comedy.

2 months ago | datebook.sfchronicle.com | Hannah Bae

It’s hard to imagine better timing for the release of Vauhini Vara’s first book of nonfiction, “Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age.”Recently, my Instagram feed has been filled with screenshots from many of the authors I follow, voicing outrage that Silicon Valley companies like Meta and OpenAI had used the pirated-books database Library Genesis, or LibGen, to access stolen copies of their work to train their AI models.