The sprawling Los Angeles Metropolitan Area is the best place in America to reassess the way we write and think about the natural world.
Arts & Culture
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Stovetop Revenge
Black women take power where they can find it, and sometimes that’s in a pot of hot, skin-searing grits.
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‘We Are All Responsible’: How #MeToo Rejects the Bystander Effect
The classic “Bystander Effect” blames a lack of intervention on diffusion of responsibility. That doesn’t fly anymore.
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On Asylums
A problematic cat offered more insight into the author’s ailing father than you’d think.
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Remembering Ken Nordine
The ambitious radio personality created his own form of expression, called “word jazz,” to properly accomodate his musical voice and artistic ambitions.
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How Do We Read in a Digital World?
Digitization has changed the way readers experience literature — and examine themselves.
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Three Decades of Cross-Cultural Utopianism in British Music Writing
The history of England’s fertile music press reveals as much about the opinionated English youth who created it as it does the music they covered in the second half of the 20th century.
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Teen Girls Finally Get to Touch Themselves
Pop culture loves to show teen boys jerking off, but girls never seemed to get the same attention. They are getting their happy ending now.
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Shelved: Sonny Rollins Live at Carnegie Hall
The saxophone colossus recorded two concerts at the same venue fifty years apart. Only one recording emerged from the vault.
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Writing for the Movies: A Letter from Hollywood, 1962
In this classic essay about a classic American art form, legendary screenwriter Daniel Fuchs reflects on his lifetime learning the trade.