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A Child Makes a Future, and What Future Had We?
Carol Senf reviews Kathe Koja’s “Catherine the Ghost.”
Archive
The Poetic Origins of Middle-earth
Christian Kriticos reviews “The Collected Poems of J. R. R. Tolkien.”
Restored Particulars
Nathan Blansett reviews Margaret Ross’s poetry collection “Saturday.”
One Community, Undivided, Uniquely on This Side of the Border
Frank Bergon reviews two new collections from Dagoberto Gilb: “New Testaments” and “A Passing West: Essays from the Borderlands.”
This Is the Way to Exit Your Youth
Emily Quintanilla finds at least 13 reasons why you’d not be bored at Wallows’ hometown show at the Forum.
More Than an Object of Vardolatry
Conor Williams reviews Carrie Rickey’s “A Complicated Passion: The Life and Work of Agnès Varda.”
Artist for Survival
Fiona Lindsay Shen reviews a display of countercultural art soon to be open at Cerritos College.
Blessed Are the Forgetful
In the latest installment of Screen Shots, Annie Berke recalls Michel Gondry’s “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,” a love story about memory loss, for its 20th anniversary.
The Story of a Generation
Michele Willens reviews Connie Chung’s memoir, which recalls her barrier-shattering career in TV news journalism.
Cop Cities Mock Cities
Stuart Schrader examines the historical origins and current ramifications of “cop city” complexes.
They Learned to Stop Interrupting
Melissa Saywell explores Long Beach’s queer history at a Circa Festival event.
Deborah Levy’s “The Position of Spoons: And Other Intimacies”
Kate Wolf speaks to the author Deborah Levy about her new book, a collection of essays called “The Position of Spoons: And Other Intimacies.”
Is Trump “America’s Hitler”?
Donald Trump is sometimes compared to Adolf Hitler in his narcissism and authoritarianism. Tom Zoellner looks at German history for parallels and contradictions.
Sunday Scaries
On the Lord’s Day, Madeleine Connors hits up Jumbo’s Clown Room and finds that there is no God, only Topaz the dancer.
A Chaos of Privilege and Prejudice
Charlie Tyson identifies a political turn in Alan Hollinghurst’s latest novel, “Our Evenings.”
Desire Lines
C. Francis Fisher interviews Madeleine Cravens about her debut book of poems, “Pleasure Principle.”
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