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An Emergency Born of Prosperity
Zoe Adams considers “There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America” by Brian Goldstone.
Economics and Finance
Making a Killing
Mikkel Krause Frantzen discusses the future of the financial thriller in an era of cryptocurrencies and climate crisis.
Party Lines and Bottom Lines
Martin Laflamme traces the history and future of globalization through three recent books on China’s techno-nationalism.
The Point, However, Is to Change It
In advance of Andreas Malm and Wim Carton’s forthcoming book “The Long Heat: Climate Politics When It’s Too Late,” Genevieve Guenther revisits the authors’ 2024 title “Overshoot: How the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown.”
Ways and Means
Carey Mott reviews Andrea Louise Campbell’s “Taxation and Resentment: Race, Party, and Class in American Tax Attitudes” and Ruth Braunstein’s “My Tax Dollars: The Morality of Taxpaying in America.”
Conspiracism, Nationalism, Decline
Sarah Brouillette reviews Jamie Merchant’s “Endgame: Economic Nationalism and Global Decline.”
Medicine and Lucre
While looking at three recent books, physician Luke Messac explains why the public has legitimate reasons to distrust our healthcare system.
Archive Fever: Los Angeles Review of Books’ Post-Election Roundup
In light of the election, LARB editors present a selection of archival pieces that reveal what we know (and do not) about ourselves as a nation.
The “Twaddle” in Finance
In his review of “Poor Charlie's Almanack,” Dave Mandl delights in Charles T. Munger’s skewering of contemporary investing and business practices.
Building a Public Energy Commons
Ashley Dawson reviews Stephen Maher and Scott Aquanno’s “The Fall and Rise of American Finance” and Brett Christophers’s “The Price Is Wrong.”
We’re a Team, Not a Family
Michael Eby reviews “Behind the Startup: How Venture Capital Shapes Work, Innovation, and Inequality” by Benjamin Shestakofsky.
How Israel Lost America
Saree Makdisi writes on the student protests against Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
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