Mike Davis
Mike Davis was one of the leading intellectuals of his era and a contributing editor at the Los Angeles Review of Books. His works include City of Quartz (1990), a seminal study of Los Angeles’s economic and racial fault lines, Planet of Slums (2005), In Praise of Barbarians (2007), and Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties (2020), co-written with Jon Wiener.
Articles
Set the Night on Fire
LARB presents an excerpt from Mike Davis and Jon Wiener"s "Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties."
A Week in the Death of Alfred Olongo
A chronicle from Mike Davis following the death of Alfred Olongo.
A Note from Mike Davis about the Second Amendment
BILLIONAIRES AND SUPER-STORMS
The eye of the super-hurricane was reported to have come ashore at Cuixmala, where English robber baron Sir James Goldsmith built his Xanadu.
The Reds Under Romney’s Bed
The Embers of April 1992
"Los Angeles became a carnival of repression."
The Questionnaire: Mike Davis