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For Los Angeles Review of Books, I spoke with filmmaker Alex Ross Perry about making the definitive Pavement movie, blurring the lines between fact and fiction, and making a purposefully bad fake biopic lareviewofbooks.org/article/wave-t…


On Quinn Slobodian's latest for the Los Angeles Review of Books and how we study the relationship between the Alt Right and American neoliberalism since the 1990s. "The sooner we stop intellectually profiling the Right and its myriad complexities, the better." lareviewofbooks.org/article/fetish…

.Grant Sharples and Alex Ross Perry talk Perry's newest feature, "Pavements": "You can come to this movie with no awareness of this band." lareviewofbooks.org/article/wave-t…

"Some read Mao’s works on political and military strategies for lessons about office politics and career advancement. Not mentioned is Mao’s Cultural Revolution," writes Guobin Yang in his recent review of two new books on Mao-era China. lareviewofbooks.org/article/two-ma…

A Map to Black Paris | Los Angeles Review of Books Doyle D. Calhoun visits “Black Paris: Artistic Circulations and Anti-Colonial Struggles, 1950–2000” at the Centre Pompidou. lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-map-…

'Jaivin writes with effortless familiarity of Chinese politics. While telling a sweeping story of horrendous events, she still has an eye for vivid details and character sketches' GUOBIN YANG in Los Angeles Review of Books on Linda Jaivin's BOMBARD THE HEADQUARTERS. lareviewofbooks.org/article/two-ma…

"God may be a 'tardy prick' in the Goddardian universe, but nobody dies before they are dead." Sophie Lewis considers Keiran Goddard’s "I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning." lareviewofbooks.org/article/an-unk…



Me on Keiran Goddard Keiran Goddard's "I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning" is live now at @lareviewofbooks. There's everything here from antiwork utopianism, "slow violence," and Palestine, to Grenfell Tower & West Midlands libraries. Read the novel now: lareviewofbooks.org/article/an-unk…



"While the specter of Musk roams throughout the book’s chapters and interpretive claims, its primary focus is on those 'bastards' who have read Hayek in less than credible ways." L. Benjamin Rolsky reads Quinn Slobodian's "Hayek’s Bastards." lareviewofbooks.org/article/fetish…

For my money L. Benjamin Rolsky is one of the best intellectual chroniclers of the Right from outside the conservative movement active today. Worth reading his newest at Los Angeles Review of Books. lareviewofbooks.org/article/fetish….

“Hunter was a poet before she turned to fiction, and the language of ‘Days of Light’ is richer and denser than that of her angular first two novels.” Isabelle Stuart examines Megan Hunter’s new novel, “Days of Light.” lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-le…



In Art of the Review, Katie Kadue will teach you how to write a review like a pro. Drawing on her academic and critical writing background, katie kadue will work with students to unpack the review as a work of literature. lareviewofbooks.org/event/the-art-…


"When his own vice-presidential pick once feared that Trump would be 'an American Hitler,' it calls the question: just how deep is the comparison?" Tom Zoellner looks at German history for parallels and contradictions between Donald Trump and Adolf Hitler. lareviewofbooks.org/article/is-tru…

"Goddard’s poetics incite an appetite for nondisposable world-building even as it casts a spell subliminally upon the reader," writes Sophie Lewis in her review of "I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning" by Keiran Goddard. lareviewofbooks.org/article/an-unk…