What Does Jill Soloway Want?
Meredith Maran takes a look at Jill Soloway’s new memoir, “She Wants It,” which delves into the noted director and writer’s political awakening.
Memoir & Essay
"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf
My Favorite Year: In Los Angeles with Eve Babitz in 1971
Dan Wakefield recalls his favorite year, spent with Eve Babitz in her city.
Anna Maria Ortese’s Unforgiving Vision in “Neapolitan Chronicles”
Eloisa Morra unmasks the challenging nature of Anna Maria Ortese’s classic fiction-reportage hybrid “Neapolitan Chronicles.”
On Reading Jonathan Gold
Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft remembers Jonathan Gold, who helped him fall in love with Los Angeles.
The Violence of Autobiography: Julián Herbert’s “Tomb Song”
Tomb Song provides a powerful introduction to Herbert, and is, in itself, one of the most significant Latin American literary works of the decade.
Cynical Satire and Civic Optimism Across the American Heartland
Danielle Charette read-trips through Gary Shteyngart’s “Lake Success” and James and Deborah Fallows’s “Our Towns.”
M Is for Mother
Kate Martin Rowe reads Kim Adrian's glossary-memoir of her mother's mental illness, "The Twenty-Seventh Letter of the Alphabet."
Joshua Cohen Confronts the New National Deficit in “ATTENTION: Dispatches from a Land of Distraction”
Jessi Jezewska Stevens declares Joshua Cohen’s “ATTENTION: Dispatches from a Land of Distraction” “brilliant, frustrating, searching, and sad.”
Once Upon a Time in Los Angeles: Kathryn Harrison’s “On Sunset”
Dinah Lenney journeys through “On Sunset,” a new memoir by Kathryn Harrison.
When Fear Goes Pop: An Interview with Kisha Lewellyn Schlegel on “Fear Icons”
In this monthly series, Melynda Fuller interviews writer and academic Kisha Lewellyn Schlegel about her debut essay collection “Fear Icons.”
Fraught with Peril: On Lucia Berlin’s “Evening in Paradise” and “Welcome Home”
Ryan Smernoff greets the publication of “Evening in Paradise: More Stories” and “Welcome Home” by Lucia Berlin.
Finding the Tune
Mark Wallace pays homage to Webern’s Concerto, which determined the course of his life.
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