Los Angeles (Calif.)

Fast vs. Furious

by Rachel Kushner,

Los Angeles is not “Hollywood,” and those who confuse the two should be banned from visiting. One quarter of California’s forty million residents live in L.A., which is the most…

Chronicle of a Death Foreteller

by Sam Sweet,

From “7417 Hollywood Boulevard,” which was published in October 2021 in the fourth volume of his All Night Menu series, a history of Los Angeles in five installments. Each booklet…

The Anxiety of Influencers

by Barrett Swanson,

Educating the TikTok generation

Then Again

by Jill Ciment,

From The Other Half, a manuscript in progress rebutting the author’s 1996 memoir, Half a Life, which describes her relationship with her husband, whom she met when she was a…

The Odd Couple

by Jean Stein,

From West of Eden: An American Place, an oral history of Hollywood and Los Angeles by Jean Stein, published this month by Random House. Stein is the author of Edie:…