In the Neighborhood: Tom Waits
Tom Waits's Los Angeles
December 29th, 2012“Exquisite in both story and sentence, the Anne books built me as a reader, which is to say: they built me.”Sarah Mesle on "Anne of Green Gables"
Los Angeles Review of Books
In the Year of the Dragon: China’s 2012
A look back at the year, with an eye toward global domination by 2030
January 3rd, 2013
Independence Day: A Dispatch from Edinburgh
December 9th, 2012
Indigenous to the Hood
On Los Angeles's Gang Tours
November 26th, 2012
Infinite Proofs: The Effects of Mathematics on David Foster Wallace
To the extent he was home anywhere, DFW was at home in the world of math.
November 25th, 2012
Is The Atlantic Making Us Stupid?
On the magazine’s frequent, and frequently controversial, articles about gender issues.
September 10th, 2012
Jack Gilbert, 1925 - 2012
...the hard-hooks that fold you down to your knees...
November 14th, 2012
James Deen vs. the Nebbishes
October 21st, 2012
James Ellroy on his latest novella.
L.A. is where I come back to when women divorce me.
November 21st, 2012
Jay McInerney, the New York Fantasy, and Wine
A reckoning with the author of 'Bright Lights, Big City'
October 3rd, 2012
John Keats, Valentine
February 14th, 2013
Judy Blume: Three Essays
On "Deenie," "Tiger Eyes," "Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret"
November 27th, 2012
Jumping the Dragon Gate: Life in Shaoyang
I lived in Shaoyang, a city in Hunan province famous for clementines and murder.
August 30th, 2012
Just Like a Woman
The shadow of the culture wars falls over these books, and Jane Austen becomes both the rescued and the rescuer.
September 5th, 2011
Katrina Media: The Arts of HBO's "Treme" in the Aftermath of Trauma
September 23rd, 2012
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