September 9, 2022   •   By Janice Rhoshalle Littlejohn, Cat Moore, Haley Griffin, Madeleine Schulz, Lajja Mistry

Creating Mobile Homes of Belonging

“There’s No Place Like Home”

Beaches. Sidewalks. Freeways: Finding Heimat in Los Angeles

From Los Angeles to Ahmedabad: One Bite at a Time

Unlike American food, the art of Indian food is in the blending of flavors. They’re like from two different planets. American food — particularly Californian food — is really focused on garden-fresh. You’ll taste the lemon and you’ll taste the herbs. But things are very, very simple. With Indian food, you can’t make anything in under an hour; you need a lot of time to make the amalgamation of flavors come alive.

There’s No Place Like Home

Dubravka Ugrešić follows humanity’s gaze toward Oz, in an essay translated by Ellen Elias-Bursać....

Uneasy Temporariness: Rosecrans Baldwin’s Los Angeles

“Everything Now” captures Los Angeles’s fundamental ambiguity, its magnetic swirl of beauty and darkness....

Playing Catch with Los Angeles

A new cultural history of Los Angeles has more twists and curves than Angeles Crest Highway but provides views just as spectacular....

Joshua Glick's "Los Angeles Documentary" is an encouragement to engage, now, with documentaries being made at the grassroots level by activist filmmakers....

The Architecture of Memory: How Los Angeles Made Me a Poet

Poet and translator Stephen Kessler reflects on his debt to Los Angeles....

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