...Tygstrup’s argument thus relies on setting Madoff’s normalcy off against a historically specific change in the overall level of...

A Conversation with Naomi Klein AT SOME POINT in 1999, I interviewed the author and journalist Naomi Klein about No Logo: Taking Aim at...

Back in April, I had a chance to speak with Cathy Park Hong at our fundraiser--published now to drum up interest in the next Luminary...

In The LARB Quarterly Issue no. 38, EARTH, I wrote about financial thrillers and how you get people to care about tax loopholes and...

This weekend, LA Review of Books is paying tribute to Mike Davis . Davis was mythically angry, but his work also made a shared history of...

At The Los Angeles Review of Books. In the postwar Fordist compromise, employers needed workers to master their jobs and stick around, at...

January 2023 Annie Duke, the winningest woman in poker, wants you to think about quitting your job.

I neglected to post this when it happened, but Matt Seybold's The American Vandal podcast gathered me, Sarah Mesle and Aaron Bady to talk...

If you can join us in person in January, I hope you will. Incoming EIC is me. In the LARB newsletter, my friend and the phenomenal...

I published this essay in Rare Bird Press's anthology of essays about Didion, Slouching Towards Los Angeles: Living and writing in...

The Lit Lit Fair at Hauser Wirth last weekend was super energizing. I spoke at LARB's panel about print and the Quarterly, picked up some...

He has a lot of insight into how nostalgia is its own trap — about what it means to love a city that doesn't know how to handle its own...

It has taken me 25 years, in a way, to write this essay. The past few weeks—scratch that—the past few years have been triggering for many...

https://marktwainstudies.com/theshush/ My friend and colleague Matt Seybold invited me and Kyla Wazana Tompkins onto his truly excellent...

I was part of a fantastic seminar at last March's ACLA, entitled "Consensus in Fragments: Literature, Normativity, and Social Trust after...

Robinhood, r/WallStreetBets, Who's Yellen Now, and the Game-Stopification of Finance In February, I was on Matt Seybold's excellent...