David Barclay

Science writers tackle the biggest lingering questions on the CZU and SCU wildfires.

So he took to the podium, looked over the dais, and ever-so-gently scolded San Jose's mayor and council, which, in honoring him for winning the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, had gathered in the very building that erased his parents' American dream. Nguyen and his brother, just children when the family fled Vietnam and assumed the burdensome mantle of refugees, were just as helpless as adults when their parents were forced to sell their business and see it demolished for a gleaming $343 million City Hall tower and rotunda. Whatever is left of the New Saigon Market lies fossilized at a depth reserved for milk-carton mobsters and earthworms.

The future of film extends beyond the big screen next month at the Cinequest Film and VR Festival (Cinequest 2017), which will feature a...