Essays Archive | Los Angeles Review of Books

All Essays

The Sum of Two Cubes (And the Uses of Literature)
An experimental essay on the potential of writing.
Erik AndersonSep 23, 2012
Los Angeles: Drawn by Committee
On the power behind the power in postwar LA.
Jack ShakelySep 23, 2012
Skylight Series, Ep. 2: Jeffrey Fleishman
Sep 22, 2012
Dance Dance Revelation: On “So You Think You Can Dance”
A strange concoction of high art, hazy humanitarianism, and athletic genius.
Sarah BlackwoodSep 18, 2012
Letter from Berlin
Van Dyke ParksSep 16, 2012
Hip-Hop-Academia: Omar Offendum and Arab Diaspora Rap
Torie Rose DeGhettSep 16, 2012
Some Variations on Mark Lanegan
The ghost of Kurt Cobain haunts the music of Mark Lanegan
H. WechslerSep 16, 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.
David BielloSep 15, 2012
Prison.edu: On the Most Effective, Underfunded College System in the US
Colin AsherSep 14, 2012
- Education
Contact With The Real: On 'Cosmopolis'
The Singularity & late capitalism & technological despair — oh my!
Cornel BoncaSep 12, 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'
Brian FinneySep 12, 2012
Is The Atlantic Making Us Stupid?
On the magazine’s frequent, and frequently controversial, articles about gender issues.
Pamela ErensSep 10, 2012
Haunted in Bucharest: fathoming my mother’s homeland by talking to its writers
The author looks through Romania's literary history for a better understanding of the country’s story – as well as his own family's.
Paul MandelbaumSep 9, 2012
Reading in Prison: 'The Art of War' as Survival Guide
Michael KrikorianSep 9, 2012
Dispatches from the Democratic National Convention: Part II
Concluding Commentary
Kelly CandaeleSep 7, 2012
Mythmaking in Dawson City: A Nepali Searches for Canadianness
Falling under the strange spell of a Canadian tradition.
Manjushree ThapaSep 7, 2012