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The Veteranos of East LA
Scholar Randol Contreras joins Kate Wolf and Eric Newman to discuss his new book “The Marvelous Ones: Drugs, Gang Violence, and Resistance in East Los Angeles.”
Archive
Toward a Genealogy of Fossil Capitalism: On Mohamed Amer Meziane’s “The States of the Earth”
Ed Simon reviews Mohamed Amer Meziane’s “The States of the Earth: An Ecological and Racial History of Secularization.”
Watching in L.A.: The Los Angeles Festival of Movies’ First Year
Ryan Coleman reports from the Los Angeles Festival of Movies.
IKEA Panacea
Emily Ann Zisko discovers a cure-all for commercialism, consumerism and c-loneliness at the Burbank IKEA residency exhibition.
Respect Is Just a Minimum: On HBO Max’s “Rap Sh!t”
Alyx Vesey bemoans the cancellation of HBO Max’s series about a female hip-hop duo, “Rap Sh!t.”
The “Nacirema” Dream: The Story of an Asian American Studio
Jonathan van Harmelen reveals a lesser-known, unappreciated history of American film through the work of Asian American makers and studios.
Being Free, Being Faithful, Being Responsible for Extinction
Kate Sadoff, surrounded by fruiting L.A. bodies, ponders the fungus among us at Jennifer Croft’s “Extinction of Irena Rey” reading in Brentwood.
Begin Again: On Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo’s “Incantation”
Renee Hudson reviews Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo’s “Incantation: Love Poems for Battle Sites.”
War, Perpetuated: On Sasha Vasilyuk’s “Your Presence Is Mandatory”
Svetlana Satchkova reviews Sasha Vasilyuk’s “Your Presence Is Mandatory.”
Voices from the Borderlands
The recent outpouring of literary works from Latin America leads Emily Quintanilla to unearth Dick Cluster’s profile of Texas’s own FlowerSong Press and its publisher, Edward Vidaurre.
Dirty Digits and “Pleasant Landscapes”: On Jason A. Heppler’s “Silicon Valley and the Environmental Inequalities of High-Tech Urbanism”
After reading Jason A. Heppler’s “Silicon Valley and the Environmental Inequalities of High-Tech Urbanism,” Patrick McCray decides that Silicon Valley should really be called Arsenic Valley.
I Understand Thee, and Can Speak Thy Tongue: California Unlocks Shakespeare’s Gibberish
In honor of National Talk Like Shakespeare Day, Frank Bergon writes about Shakespeare’s possible use of the Basque language.
Who Does and Doesn’t Belong on Everest?
Your climbing guide Kate Sadoff offers you a “peak” at the release reading of Will Cockrell’s “Everest, Inc.: The Renegades and Rogues Who Built an Industry at the Top of the World.”
“D Is for Despair” Didn’t Sound So Good: A Conversation Between Bill McKibben and Elizabeth Kolbert
For Earth Day, Bill McKibben speaks with Elizabeth Kolbert about climate change and her new book “H Is for Hope: Climate Change from A to Z.”
Black Archives, Not Archives of Blackness: On Laura Helton’s “Scattered and Fugitive Things”
Dorothy Berry reviews Laura Helton’s “Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History.”
Hello Gorgeous
Maya Chen attends “Funny Girl” to find the music that makes her dance, even with a sprained ankle.
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