After Paris, the IPCC justified the expansion of the fossil-fuel system by implicitly promising that we could "overshoot” 1.5C yet ultimately meet the target anyway. What does this mean? Read my deep dive into Andreas Malm & @wimcarton.bsky.social's *Overshoot* lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...

"I remember hundreds of photos and videos of brothers, sisters, fathers—people whose faces say they are no longer of this world even as they remain in it." Mary Turfah on Gaza and the limits of war photography in a preview of LARB Quarterly. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-rest-is-history/

For LARB Quarterly, no. 45: Submission, Charley Burlock examines the flammability of California eucalyptus trees that dominate our landscape—and the fire survivors that choose to return to them. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/incendiary/

“Kanye rapped it through the wire; now, B.G. had to rap into one.” For the new LARB Quarterly, Jack Lubin considers B.G.'s federally-approved album “Freedom of Speech” and rap in the age of incarceration and surveillance. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/feds-watching/

I wrote the @newyorker.com Pride essay about the fight for trans healthcare, the Skremetti decision, trans children, the Big Beautiful Bill, Medicaid, and last month’s vicious HHS report. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

“To call for peace after an act of aggression is to endorse the aggression.” Mary Turfah writes on Iran. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/politics-as-usual/

In LARB Quarterly, no. 45: Submission, Emmeline Clein considers the legacy of radical feminist Shulamith Firestone, and her resistance and surrender to the institution. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/never-a-patient-woman/

"I found myself in the snare of the great American vanity project known as liberalism." Rhys Langston reports from Los Angeles amidst the protests and ICE raids. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-week-occupied-by-ice-or-how-close-does-the-violence-become/

Me on Keiran Goddard @keirangoddard.bsky.social's "I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning" is live now at @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social. There's everything here from antiwork utopianism, love, and Palestine, to Grenfell Tower and West Midlands libraries. Read it now: lareviewofbooks.org/article/an-u...

Agnes Borinsky is worthy of all of it in The Los Angeles Review of Books.

"People in the arts are often the people who speak truth to power." -Michael Holtmann, President of the Center for the Art of Translation interviewed about the termination of our NEA grant for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social. Support our work by becoming a Member www.catranslation.org/books/member...

“Fewer books are going to be published. Some literary organizations won’t survive this.” For the LARB, I spoke with book publishers and lit mags impacted by Trump and DOGE's coup at the NEA. lareviewofbooks.org/article/we-d...

since the incomparable mary turfah sent a draft my way, I haven’t stopped thinking about this essay. read it, if you haven’t already; if you have, read it again. lareviewofbooks.org/article/points… @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social

I was so thrilled to review Danzy Senna's COLORED TELEVISION for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social! Senna's novel is not only thought-provoking, but also an absolute blast to read. highly recommend both checking out the novel & checking out my thoughts on it here: lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-sh...

"I think the best way to describe it is a kind of rot. It’s so easy to backslide into if you are bored and hateful." Sophie Kemp considers the recent and ongoing radicalization of young men in the United States. lareviewofbooks.org/article/new-...

Swear this isn’t becoming a theme, but another quick one on California wildfires - plus chronic pain, environmental injustices & colonial mythologies - in Manjula Martin’s exquisite new memoir for the LA Review of Books

Sobering box from the latest @harpers.bsky.social …

Dropping this here now because gosh why not - recently wrote about the representational challenges of slow violence & Daniel Gumbiner's deeply suggestive work of ecofic, Fire in the Canyon, for LA Review of Books

Failing to see any kind of overreaction here