The Educational Lottery
Education is as close to a secular religion as we have in the United States.
November 15th, 2011“Hurt Into Poetry: On Poetry and Greece”By Stephanos Papadopoulos
Los Angeles Review of Books
Brumaire
On Occupy Cal and the fight over public education in California.
November 13th, 2011
Crimson Front
I heard a student exclaim, "This isn’t a protest or demonstration — it’s a process."
November 13th, 2011
The Battle of the People's Kitchen
At first I was skeptical about Occupy Riverside. But the more I heard about what was going on downtown, the more enthusiastic I became.
November 13th, 2011
Big Tent
As the tent city grows, a community has sprouted, igniting human interaction in ways that are often anathema to Los Angeles’s sprawl.
November 12th, 2011
People's Libraries
Writing my book, I kept asking myself: Why haven’t we fought back? Why don’t 21st century writers organize?
November 12th, 2011
Letter From Oakland
It was decided, a species of what we might call a “postmodern general strike” will come lumbering out of the revolutionary textbook.
November 12th, 2011
Another L.A. Look
A symptom?! Why does a book celebrating the talents of individual Los Angeles artists suddenly go all Fernand Braudel on us
November 11th, 2011
Zell to L.A. Times: Drop Dead
The book is a reminder that whenever you think things can’t get worse, they can. They can get much, much worse.
November 9th, 2011
My Disappointment Critic
I hadn’t realized until Wood was off my pedestal that I’d built one. That I’d sunk stock in the myth of a great critic.
November 7th, 2011
Around the Table
These unanticipated truffles hiding deep in the gratin dauphinois of Gopnik's larger story remind us that food permeates every facet of our lives.
November 3rd, 2011
The Natural
Cage, so long associated with the New York avant-garde, now strikes me as quintessentially Californian, and more specifically, Angeleno.
November 2nd, 2011
The Horror
I’d found my thing. I embraced the scary. I befriended it. The monsters and I fell in love, and I didn’t question why. I was home.
October 30th, 2011
Unmentionables
The theme of male friendship is virgin territory for Rush, but the basic framework of the protagonist-couple and their idioverse is a Rushian staple.
October 23rd, 2011
Romero, Blew, Aciman, Hughes
Some doors opened, were squeezed through, then slammed shut, trapping women like Blew in lives filled with unprecedented challenges.
October 22nd, 2011
Genres
Film
"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers... More
Art & Architecture
"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa... More
Literary Fiction
"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes... More
Science & Technology
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More
SF
"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — F... More
Television
"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen... More