“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
Reviews
Laura Pulido on A People's Guide to Los Angeles by Laura Barraclough, Wendy Cheng and Laura Pulido
“A People’s Guide to Los Angeles, Part 3”
August 20th, 2012
Michelle Dean on Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953 by Elizabeth Winder
“Fabrics and Trinkets: Elizabeth Winder’s Sylvia Plath”
April 30th, 2013
Suzanne Muchnic on Painted Bodies by Carol Beckwith
“Beyond Tattoos: The Art of Body Adornment in Africa”
February 3rd, 2013
Juliana Romano on Delirium and Pandemonium by Lauren Oliver and Lauren Oliver
August 4th, 2012
Amy Parker on Panorama City by Antoine Wilson
“The Integrity of His Innocence: On Antoine Wilson's 'Panorama City'”
December 7th, 2012
Susan Salter Reynolds on Paris, I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down by Rosecrans Baldwin
June 25th, 2012
Olivia Harrison on Parting Ways by Judith Butler
“Judith Butler and the Cause of the Other”
December 9th, 2012
William Flesch on The Magic of Reality and Pathological Altruism by Richard Dawkins and Barbara Oakley
“Paradoxes of Altruism in the Digital Age”
August 19th, 2012
Richard Schickel on Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark by Brian Kellow
November 30th, 2011
Laurie Winer on Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark by Brian Kellow
December 2nd, 2011
Joan Gordon on Peace by Gene Wolfe
April 30th, 2013
Brian Sholis on Pep Talk 5: Bruce Hainley by Bruce Hainley
October 20th, 2011
William Flesch on Phi by Giulio Tononi
“The Secrets of Consciousness and the Problem of God”
May 19th, 2013
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