Big Table

José Vadi on Living through Gentrification in Twenty-First Century California

Carole Angier on Fact and Fiction in W.G. Sebald’s Work

Robert Gottlieb on the Enigma of Greta Garbo

Emily Rapp Black on Frida Kahlo, Disability, and the Myth of the Suffering Artist

“Los Angeles is Covered in Gold if You’re a Writer.” Rosecrans Baldwin on Writing LA

Daniel Oppenheimer on Why We Should Read Dave Hickey

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

David Ulin on Joan Didion, California, Counterculture, and the Essay Form

Matthew Specktor on the Cultural Memory of Los Angeles

Warren Ellis on Mementos of the Music World

Kyle Beachy on the Mystery Origins of Skateboarding

“Adapting to the Reality of the River.” Nathaniel Rich on the Political Game Around Climate Change

“Our Photographs Come Out of Our Own Experience.” Jona Frank on Her New Visual Memoir

Damian Bradfield on the Future of the Internet

William Sites on Sun Ra’s Proto-Afrofuturism and Birmingham Upbringing

Dana Gioia on Why Ray Bradbury is So Essential

Brigette Benkeman on Dora Maar, Surrealist Photographer and Picasso’s “Weeping Woman”

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