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“Burnside” by Devyn Defoe Review
Several years ago, a taxi driver in Bali asked if I was visiting from America. When I said…
“Too L.A.” by Eve Babitz Review: The Literary Los Angeles
Is Too L.A.: Letters Never Sent (but Some Were) Eve Babitz’s “most consequential work”? Lili Anolik, who edited…
City by the Bay
Few things have transformed San Francisco in a more dramatic fashion than the rise of the internet. Over…
“Disneyland and the Rise of Automation” Review: Anaheim Machine
Disneyland is different things to different people, from a nostalgic return to one’s carefree youth to a shameless…