Reality Starvation
Fiction-making is so much fun that many nonfiction writers prefer to make up stuff. Over at the Los Angeles Review of Books, David Freeman considers the importance of the imperceptible,…
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Contingent Justice
LARB’s Marginalia Review of Books recently published a series of essays on the future of tenure. While addressing the academic labor crisis, the series digs deeply into our wider national…
How Quiet Lightning Struck San Francisco
I felt the bios and intros depleted the magic. Each sequence of words is a spell, and when you follow one spell with another spell, they compound, building off the…
Natural Endings
Kazuo Ishiguro is interviewed at the Los Angeles Review of Books; among other things, the writer touches on world-building, jumping genres, and why, sometimes, it takes a little while to get where you’re…
Childless Spinsters
Not getting married and not having children are still controversial decisions for women. Over at the Los Angeles Review of Books, Minda Honey shares her own experience, and reviews three recent…
Orson Welles’s Century
If we want to mistake success in Hollywood for a state of grace, then Welles is our Lucifer — the archangel closest to the Almighty whose beastly arrogance is to…
Book Shopping with the Author
Over at the Los Angeles Review of Books, Jonathan Lethem gives us a tour of the books he’s buying at Skylight Books in Los Feliz.
Word of the Day: Eschaton
(n.); the last thing, as a theological reference to the climax of history at Judgment Day; the day at the end of time following Armageddon when God will decree the…
Camus And Orwell’s Hypothetical Coffee Date
In 1945 George Orwell was scheduled to meet Albert Camus at a café in Paris. However, Camus became ill and the two authors never met. Now, for the Los Angeles Review of…
Boy Kings Forever
Jonathan Leal riffs on abandoning Texas, Steve Reich, and Domingo Martinez’s new memoir for the LARB: When I left the border for college some years ago, I dreamed of permanent escape;…
The Day Ray Bradbury’s House Died
Noel Anenberg reports about the destruction of Ray Bradbury’s California home for the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Tragedy’s Irony
Using W.H. Auden and his predecessor, Rabelais, Nina Martyris discusses in the Los Angeles Review of Books how irony is being implemented to confront the tragedy of Charlie Hebdo: So how…