Archive

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  Discoveries: Michael Cunningham

  Susan Salter ReynoldsNov 19, 2011
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  Discoveries: Maile Meloy

  Susan Salter ReynoldsNov 19, 2011
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  The Things We Carry

  I wondered if O’Brien’s words, like explosive devices hidden in the humid jungles, had triggered these awful images, or if Iraq simply played forever in Mike’s head, a fractured repetitive loop.

  Jocelyn HeaneyNov 18, 2011
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  Books That Made Us: The Phantom Tollbooth

  The adventure in The Phantom Tollbooth doesn’t change; it’s the meaning we find in it that evolves.

  Chelsey PhilpotNov 17, 2011

• The Educational Lottery

  Education is as close to a secular religion as we have in the United States.

  Nov 15, 2011

• Our Zombies, Ourselves: Colson Whitehead's "Zone One"

  Zombies, it turns out, have much to tell us about our lives in the 2010s.

  Nov 14, 2011

• Brumaire

  On Occupy Cal and the fight over public education in California.

  Nov 13, 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.

  Nov 13, 2011

• Crimson Front

  I heard a student exclaim, "This isn’t a protest or demonstration — it’s a process."

  Nov 13, 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.

  Nov 12, 2011
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  People's Libraries

  Writing my book, I kept asking myself: Why haven’t we fought back? Why don’t 21st century writers organize?

  Jason BoogNov 12, 2011
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  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.

  Sonali KolhatkarNov 12, 2011
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  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

  Peter PlagensNov 11, 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.

  Nov 9, 2011

• The Cows: A Rumination

  The Cows seems particularly playful, gentle. Her consciousness here bristles, stirs, even strains, but it rarely furrows or breaks.

  Nov 8, 2011

• Patience and Virtue: An Interview with Lydia Davis

  I like the book to exist in a sort of middle space, kind of floating.

  Nov 8, 2011