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<div class="at-above-post-homepage addthis_tool" data-url="https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/essays/fomo-spirituality-desert-daze/"></div><p>Thursday, 10 p.m., Walmart parking lot: a mustachioed man in a serape takes a selfie.</p>
<p>“I was too late to get in at the campground,” he tells me, so he chronicles his night of missing out in photos he sends to his friends. <a href="https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/essays/fomo-spirituality-desert-daze/#more-5555" class="more-link">Read more</a></p>
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FOMO Spirituality: On Desert Daze

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<div class="at-above-post-homepage addthis_tool" data-url="https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/essays/joshua-tree-aesthetic-mojave-yucca-became-symbol-music-video-feminism/"></div><p>Lovers should seek out Joshua Tree for their next tryst, claims Ariana Grande’s music video. Her 2016 Grammy-nominated <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ekZEVeXwek">video for “Into You”</a> traces a pop star’s illicit liaison with her bodyguard. They ride a motorcycle to a 1950s-style motel with joshua trees dotting the background, and Grande throws away her fame and celebrity boyfriend for a weekend of anonymity in the Mojave Desert. <a href="https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/essays/joshua-tree-aesthetic-mojave-yucca-became-symbol-music-video-feminism/#more-4900" class="more-link">Read more</a></p>
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The Joshua Tree Aesthetic: How the Mojave Yucca Became a Symbol of Music Video Feminism

Julia Sizek is a PhD candidate in cultural anthropology at UC-Berkeley and an Associate Scholar at the Native American Land Conservancy. She studies sacred site protection, environmentalism, and land management in California's Eastern Mojave Desert.

Julia Sizek