Trying to Photograph a Hummingbird: Essays upon Essays
A new collection of methodical studies of a highly unmethodical form....
Uneasy Temporariness: Rosecrans Baldwin’s Los Angeles
“Everything Now” captures Los Angeles’s fundamental ambiguity, its magnetic swirl of beauty and darkness....
The Politics of Humane Violence
Modern warfare turns civilians into human shields....
The Fallacies of “Progress”: On Leonard Greenspoon’s “Jewish Bible Translations”
The “literal meaning” of a sacred text does not exist separate from rabbinic opinion....
Feral Monstrosity: On Rivers Solomon’s “Sorrowland”
Christina Orlando reviews "Sorrowland," the latest novel from Rivers Solomon....
The Dignified Exit
Dying on your own terms is more difficult than ever....
The Life — and Lives — of the Party: Communism in China, 1921–2021
Martin Laflamme evaluates “The Chinese Communist Party: A Century in Ten Lives” and “From Rebel to Ruler.”...
Richard Wright’s Underground Novel
Richard Wright’s “lost” novel about police violence is in print for the first time....
We Are Where? Lost in the Disinformation Jungle
Understanding the polluted media landscape through ecological metaphors....
Keeping It Close: On Katie Kitamura’s “Intimacies”
Carissa Chesanek examines the close quarters that form “Intimacies,” Katie Kitamura’s latest....
Courtiers and Sycophants: Catherine Liu’s Case Against the Professional Managerial Class
An excoriation of the professional managerial class that strips attention from the people it purports to help....
The Land of Dreamers
How a multiethnic neighborhood east of downtown Los Angeles signifies democracy....
