Letter from London: Lost in the Supermarket
Searching for a political meaning in the London "shopping riots."
September 4th, 2011“Hurt Into Poetry: On Poetry and Greece”By Stephanos Papadopoulos
Los Angeles Review of Books
Letter from London: Soot and Ash
Once you begin to look for influences, they seem to be everywhere — in the weather, in politics, in literature and art.
August 22nd, 2011
Letter from Madrid
Disquiet and decay in the Spanish capital
February 18th, 2013
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
Letter From Trinidad: Beyoncé Is Gold
Like all pop stars of the stature she’s now attained, Beyoncé is less an expresser of herself than a mirror for our fantasies and fears.
May 27th, 2011
Letter from Venezuela: When Venezuela Speaks
Did Chávez create Venezuela? Or did Venezuela create Chávez?
March 20th, 2013
Letters to the Editors
It is difficult for an author to respond to a review without sounding churlish.
June 18th, 2011
Levine y yo: In Praise of Poet Philip Levine
On the Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet
September 2nd, 2012
Levitated Mass Hysteria: Michael Heizer's LACMA Installation
On Michael Heizer's large-scale LACMA installation
February 15th, 2013
Life in Storage: Of Capitalism and A&E's "Storage Wars"
On the American culture of accumulation, and the author's addiction to A&E’s "Storage Wars."
February 4th, 2012
Life in the Anthropocene: Washing Down Our Taste for Oil
Bayou towns are still feeling the effects of the BP spill two years later.
September 15th, 2012
Life is Short; Art is Shorter
Every life, properly understood, is compelling.
May 2nd, 2011
Light In Translation: On Spencer Finch
Revisiting the poetry of past installations
December 3rd, 2012
Literary Lout: Martin Amis Once Again Faces the Critics
A look at his past work and his newest novel, 'Lionel Asbo: State of England'
September 12th, 2012
Literature is not Data: Against Digital Humanities
'Big data is coming for your books.'
October 28th, 2012
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