The Secret Song of Water: From Coleridge to Darwish
Fady Joudah reflects on water as substance, poetic subject, and way of life....
The Secret Song of Water: From Coleridge to Darwish
Fady Joudah reflects on water as substance, poetic subject, and way of life....
“Sing of Human Unsuccess / in a Rapture of Distress”: The Tragicomic Poetry of John Tottenham
Anthony Mostrom profiles Los Angeles’s premier poet of poems of regret and resentment, John Tottenham....
The Therapy of Desire: Toward a Revolutionary Philosophy
Samuel Loncar on the revolution we need today....
Documenting the Mimaroğlus: Electronic Tape Music and the Turkish Émigré Avant-Garde
To listen to Ilhan Mimaroğlu’s music is to be struck by the multitude of voices, geographies, and struggles with which he was engaged....
Rewriting the West: A Discussion About the Cultural History of the American “Frontier”
A conversation with Michelle García, Carolina A. Miranda, and Fernanda Santos of “Rewriting the West,” a partnership between Michelle García and “Guernica.”...
A Place of Vanishing: Barbara Newhall Follett and the Woman in the Woods
On the mysterious disappearance of a once-famous child author....
LACMA: Suicide by Architecture
Joseph Giovannini scrutinizes LACMA director Michael Govan's failures and deceptions surrounding the museum's renovations....
When We Were Brothers: On the Writing of Daša Drndić
Lydia Perović considers the fundamental way in which the Yugoslav 1940s war of liberation structures and haunts all of Daša Drndić’s books....
Becoming Chris: Queerness, Performance, and Héloïse Letissier
Neha Sharma on queerness, performance, identity and the strange case of Héloïse Letissier, leader of Christine and the Queens....
Letter from Chernobyl
On the front lines of dark tourism....
Giving Up the Ghost
On the trail of Susan Orlean on the trail of the ghost orchid....
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Dostoyevsky
Andrew Fedorov thumbs through the works of a pair of saintly writers....