Olivia Durif writes essays focusing on culture, food, and political resistance. A regular contributor to LARB, her work can also be found in The North American Congress on Latin America and Hypocrite Reader. She lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES

No Beauty in Cell Bars: Talking with Spoon Jackson
Olivia Durif talks with poet Spoon Jackson about COVID-19 and the future of the prison-industrial complex....

Old Regimes Die Hard
Are there overwhelming contradictions in the French yellow vest movement?...

Talking About Food as Cultural Resistance with Monserrat Jarquín
How the drinking of pulque resists the rhythms of industrial capitalism....

Pouring One Out for Anthony Bourdain
Olivia Durif on Anthony Bourdain, eating with strangers, and the risks of intimacy....

The Last Bastion of Free America?: Meagan Day’s “Maximum Sunlight”
Olivia Durif reviews Meaghan Day’s book about Tonopah, Nevada....
