
Hilary Davidson
Her crime fiction and mystery novels are inspired by her career as a travel writer.

Her crime fiction and mystery novels are inspired by her career as a travel writer.

“Art is not in some far-off place.”

Philosophy/Critical Theory Editor for the Los Angeles Review of Books.

"Like a modern bridal gown, the brilliance of the shuttle on her maiden voyage shrouds the complex realities of a human story"

"In India, the elites shout themselves hoarse about emulating America – in its wealth, its swaggering confidence, its Hummers and parking lots."

"The buildings became symbols as well as tools of oppression, with the military attacking civilians from the rooftops."

"All these gentlemen know perfectly well who I am, and yet in your case I'm pretty sure..."

“The problem isn't to learn to love humanity, but to learn to love those members of it who happen to be at hand.”


"All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954... More

"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — F... More

"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More

"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen... More

"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More