The sprawling Los Angeles Metropolitan Area is the best place in America to reassess the way we write and think about the natural world.
February 2019
Posted inCurrent Events, Highlight, Quotes
How Do You Shepherd If You’ve Never Had a Sheep?
“You couldn’t have a particular friendship with a man, because you might end up being homosexual. And you couldn’t have a friendship with a woman, because you might end up falling in love.”
Posted inEditor's Pick
Thirteen Ways of Seeing Nature in LA: Part I
A nature writer in Los Angeles tackles her genre’s fundamental problems, which is also the problem of how modern Americans relate to the natural world. And yes, there is nature in L.A.
Posted inBooks, Current Events, Fiction, Story
A Citizen Is Obliged To Listen
When a refugee flees to another country and claims asylum, she is, in effect, petitioning the state to listen to her story.
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Profiles & Interviews, Story, Writing
Hanif Abdurraqib on Loving A Tribe Called Quest
“I wasn’t interested in writing the definitive book on A Tribe Called Quest. I was trying to write the definitive book on a single arc of fandom.”
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction
The Reappearing Act
In the aftermath of an eating disorder, Audrey Olivero builds a new relationship with her body — through knife-throwing.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story
The Reappearing Act
In the aftermath of an eating disorder, Audrey Olivero builds a new relationship with her body — through knife-throwing.
Posted inCulture, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes
Living to Tell About It
Struggling with trauma, sexual objectification, and self-harm, the teenage T Kira Madden found salvation in her close relationships with other young women.
Posted inHighlight, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes
‘What Happened to You While You Were Gone?’
“There is beauty to be found in mining hidden histories, but also, in letting them rest.”
Posted inEditor's Pick
What Remains
As she recalls a trip to Peru, the body of a mummified girl sacrificed for the safety of the Incans over 500 years ago, and the frustrating neurological condition that steals her memory and strength, Jacqueline Alnes mines the topography of female identity and the stereotypes that erode our self image.