Los Angeles Review of BooksIcon version of the Flipboard logoBooks Letters to the Editor: Jenny Brown Responds to “Anti-Labor Politics”lareviewofbooks.org - By Jenny Brown, Meredith Goldsmith, Anna Kryczka, Catherine Liu Jenny Brown Responds to Meredith Goldsmith, Anna Kryczka, and Catherine Liu’s “Anti-Labor Politics” (September 9, 2019): In “Anti-Labor Politics,” …
Los Angeles Review of BooksBooks Hereditary Cultural Burdens: Steph Cha’s “Your House Will Pay”lareviewofbooks.org - By Jervey Tervalon TO READ STEPH CHA’S compelling and risk-taking new novel, Your House Will Pay, is to be submerged in tragedy and to appreciate the herculean effort …
Los Angeles Review of BooksBooks Black No More?lareviewofbooks.org - By Cinque Henderson LAST NOVEMBER, Thomas Chatterton Williams appeared on a podcast with four other black intellectuals who had gathered to discuss the state of race …
Los Angeles Review of BooksBooks Why Technologists Fail to Think of Moderation as a Virtue and Other Stories About AIlareviewofbooks.org - By Evan Selinger IT’S ALMOST A BANALITY nowadays to remark that artificial intelligence (AI) is so deeply embedded in our infrastructure that it’s affecting decisions …
Los Angeles Review of BooksBooks Decline and Fall of American Democracy?lareviewofbooks.org - By Don Franzen THIS YEAR BEGAN with the United States enduring a 35-day partial governmental shutdown. The executive and legislative branches stood at complete …
Los Angeles Review of BooksBooks AWP: A Crisis of Governancelareviewofbooks.org - By Matt Burriesci FOR THOSE OF YOU following the sordid tale, the Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) has been going through a bit of a transition …
Los Angeles Review of BooksBooks How to Forget: On Lewis Hyde’s “A Primer for Forgetting: Getting Past the Past”lareviewofbooks.org - By Sebastian Stockman I know. I know that Apu — The Simpsons’s collection-of-South-Asian-stereotypes voiced by Hank Azaria in brown-throat — is canceled. I don’t mourn his …
Los Angeles Review of BooksBooks The Mild, Mild West: On “Dreams of El Dorado: A History of the American West”lareviewofbooks.org - By Karl Jacoby FOR A PEOPLE OBSESSED with expansion, Americans have spent more than a century confused about how best to tell the history of their spread into the …
Los Angeles Review of BooksBooks Seven Minutes to Beautylareviewofbooks.org - By Lulu Dewey IN FOURTH GRADE, my class read the abridged version of Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana Jr., who in 1834 boarded a merchant ship …
Los Angeles Review of BooksBooks The Moon, the Corps, and the Warlareviewofbooks.org - By Hamid Ekbia It is the clouds that make the snow and hail, And thunder comes from lightning without fail; The sea is stormy when the winds have blown, But it deals …
Los Angeles Review of BooksBooks Déjà vu Destroyed: On Stephen King’s “The Institute”lareviewofbooks.org - By Patrick McAleer “YOU’VE BEEN HERE before.” Stephen King writes these four simple words at the beginning of Needful Things, the “last” Castle Rock story in King’s …
Los Angeles Review of BooksBooks “Restoring the Divine to the Care of the Earth”: On James W. Heisig’s “Of Gods and Minds”lareviewofbooks.org - By Joseph S. O’Leary JAMES HEISIG’S ARRESTING and rather unsettling Of Gods and Minds: In Search of a Theological Commons is the fifth volume of “Duffy Lectures in Global …
Los Angeles Review of BooksBooks The End of Oz: Reflections on the Centenary of L. Frank Baum’s Deathlareviewofbooks.org - By Scott Bradfield LIKE MANY DIVORCED FATHERS, I always overcompensated at Christmas, buying my son extravagant big-ticket items months in advance — gaming consoles and …
Los Angeles Review of BooksBooks Literary LA: Stephen Van Dyck Meets People on the Internet - Los Angeles Review of Bookslareviewofbooks.org For the next step, you'll be taken to a website to complete the donation and enter your billing information. You'll then be redirected back to …
Los Angeles Review of BooksBooks Post-National Europe and Other Bureaucratic Fantasies: On Robert Menasse’s “The Capital”lareviewofbooks.org - By Andrew Griffin FOR A BOOK WRITTEN in the past five years, Robert Menasse’s The Capital, published for the first time in the United States last month in a translation …
Los Angeles Review of BooksBooks Insidious Pockets of Pain: On “The Wolf Wants In”lareviewofbooks.org - By Karen Brissette THE WOLF WANTS IN is a character-driven story of crime and loss in America’s quintessential heartland — a “small constellation of Kansas farming …
Los Angeles Review of BooksBooks Arias of Dissonance: On “NOS (disorder, not otherwise specified)”lareviewofbooks.org - By B. K. Fischer NOS (DISORDER, not otherwise specified), Aby Kaupang and Matthew Cooperman’s collaborative sequence about life with their autistic daughter, is not …
Los Angeles Review of BooksBooks Antihero Citylareviewofbooks.org - By Tara Cheesman THOUGH — OR PERHAPS BECAUSE — it has fallen on hard times, Rome remains one of the great antihero cities of Europe. Singular, even when in the …
Los Angeles Review of BooksBooks The Design Space of Languagelareviewofbooks.org - By Johanna Drucker IF PHILIP ROTH’S CLASSIC coming-of-age novel Portnoy’s Complaint (1969) had been designed in the style of Guillaume Apollinaire’s Calligrammes (1918), …
Los Angeles Review of BooksIcon version of the Flipboard logoBooks Dark Days Are Coming: On Peter Pomerantsev’s “This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality”lareviewofbooks.org - By Douglas Smith WHILE READING Peter Pomerantsev’s new book, I kept experiencing the strange feeling that Marx and Engels were whispering in my ear: The bourgeoisie …
Los Angeles Review of BooksBooks “Goodnight Moon,” Almost 75 Years Laterlareviewofbooks.org - By Brian Goedde AFTER THE ZILLIONTH TIME I recited the final, softly padded couplet of Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown, “Goodnight stars / goodnight air / …
Los Angeles Review of BooksBooks A Picture of Youth: On Stephanie Insley Hershinow’s “Born Yesterday: Inexperience and the Early Realist Novel”lareviewofbooks.org - By Jason Pearl “GROW UP!” “Get real!” We hear these commands as equivalent, inasmuch as adulthood is supposed to entail pragmatism, even skepticism. To be a …
Los Angeles Review of BooksBooks Secret Harmonies: A Conversation with Jim Gavinlareviewofbooks.org - Eric Ducker interviews Jim Gavin JIM GAVIN HAS A THING for the fuckups. His work chronicles the scrubs who can’t quite, or just won’t, get their shit together. They populate his 2013 …
Los Angeles Review of BooksBooks No Direction Home: On Ben Lerner’s “The Topeka School”lareviewofbooks.org - By Natasha Boyd AN ADOLESCENT NAMED Adam Gordon is the protagonist of Ben Lerner’s new novel, The Topeka School. He shares this name with the narrator of Leaving the …
Los Angeles Review of BooksBooks Regard for One Another: A Conversation Between Rizvana Bradley and Saidiya Hartmanlareviewofbooks.org - Rizvana Bradley interviews Saidiya Hartman SAIDIYA HARTMAN’S Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval is an elegant study in the arts of refusal cultivated by …
Los Angeles Review of BooksBooks Out of Sartre’s Shadowlareviewofbooks.org - By Skye C. Cleary WRITERS ALWAYS HAVE to make difficult choices about what to leave in and what to cut from their work. The choices become especially acute when a …
Los Angeles Review of BooksBooks That Life as I Knew It Could Collapse: An Interview with Brian Evensonlareviewofbooks.org - Andrew Blevins interviews Brian Evenson FEW WRITERS WEAPONIZE a reader’s trust like Brian Evenson. To engage with his brand of “epistemological horror,” as he has described it, is to feel …
Los Angeles Review of BooksBooks The Formation of the #MeToo Canon - Los Angeles Review of Bookslareviewofbooks.org For the next step, you'll be taken to a website to complete the donation and enter your billing information. You'll then be redirected back to …
Los Angeles Review of BooksNotre-Dame de Paris The Medieval Myth of Notre-Damelareviewofbooks.org - By Danny Smith “RESTORATION,” THE 19TH-CENTURY French engineer Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc wrote, is “a modern word and a modern thing.” His Dictionnaire raisonné …
Los Angeles Review of BooksBooks On Sex Without Identity: Feminist Politics and Sexual Differencelareviewofbooks.org - By Bernadette Grubner, Isabel Ortiz ALENKA ZUPANČIČ IS a Lacanian philosopher and social theorist. As part of the “Ljubljana school of psychoanalysis,” she combines Marxist and …
