Medaya Ocher

Medaya Ocher is the former managing editor of the Los Angeles Review of Books.

Fear of an Ill Planet: On the Importance of Sickness and the Demands of Otherness

In the 21st century are we the sick, or are they us?...

MEMOIR & ESSAY

What Are Novels For?: Privilege, Race, and Shelter in Nell Zink’s “Mislaid”

Zink delights in the possibilities of fiction and the pleasures of playing with words, one-liners, and genres....

FICTION

Karl Ove Knausgaard, Himself

Karl Ove Knausgaard: “All the people I know who write or make films, there’s something wrong with them. Disorder is a good word. If you don’t have that you don’t do it. It’s as simple as that.”...