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Grieving Redness in the West: Reading Malcolm Harris After Mike Davis
Michael Docherty on what Malcolm Harris’s history of Palo Alto owes to Mike Davis’s histories of Los Angeles.
Michael DochertyMay 20, 2023
- Politics
Writing About L.A. in the Sixties with Mike Davis
Jon Wiener remembers working with the incomparable Mike Davis.
Jon WienerNov 11, 2022
Jon Wiener on the Life and Work of Mike Davis, plus Constance Debré’s “Love me Tender”
Jon Wiener on the Life and Work of Mike Davis, plus Constance Debré’s “Love me Tender.”
LARB Radio HourNov 4, 2022
“This is a Battlefield”: A Conversation with Mike Davis
David Kipen, Derek MejíaOct 31, 2022
Remembering Mike Davis
Tributes to a giant of L.A. letters from his colleagues and students.
David Kipen, Derrick Ortega, John Shannon, Matt Garcia, Peter Sebastian Chesney, William DeverellOct 26, 2022
- History
Reading Mike Davis in Toronto: Police Violence and the Global City
David Helps on the city where “City of Quartz” was written.
David HelpsNov 22, 2020
- History
- Politics
A Note from Mike Davis about the Second Amendment
Mike DavisJun 14, 2016
The Questionnaire: Mike Davis
Mike Davis, The QuestionnaireMar 29, 2012
The Fire and the Fizzle
Jerald Podair reviews "Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties," a new history from Mike Davis and Jon Wiener.
Jerald PodairApr 14, 2020
- History
- Politics
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."
Jon Wiener, Mike DavisApr 14, 2020
- History
- Politics
The Undead
Mike Davis on Donald Trump and the Undead - BLARB
Nov 10, 2016
Remembering Tom Hayden
Remembering Tom Hayden: Mike Davis on the late civil rights and antiwar activist.
Oct 24, 2016
A Week in the Death of Alfred Olongo
A chronicle from Mike Davis following the death of Alfred Olongo.
Mike DavisOct 6, 2016
- Politics
The Elderly: Unworthy of Life?
Mike DavisApr 26, 2020
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.
Mike DavisOct 24, 2015
- Politics
The Reds Under Romney’s Bed
Mike DavisOct 25, 2012