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“The Range Rights and Resources Symposium opened on an April day at a community college next to Highway 99, a raging freeway also known as Blood Alley. … Two renowned figures of the far right adorned the speaker’s bill: Ammon Bundy, who rallied militias to take over Oregon’s Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in 2016 in protest of federal land management, and Congressman Devin Nunes, a former California dairy farmer who launched the Republican effort to discredit the investigation of President Donald Trump’s ties to Russia.” Scott Bransford reports on one of the patriot movement’s most important events of 2018 and contemplates “The Vigilante Style in California Politics.”
“What a strange state we’ve come to, that we need to be taughthow to waste time. Listen to these secular gurus: put down that smartphone, go off alone to daydream, and see just how magically time can expand.” Rebecca Foster meditates on the benefits of wasting time, the subject of new books by Patricia Hampl and Alan Lightman.
“I really wanted to place this book in the hands of someone who understood Los Angeles. That was really important to me. Seeing the struggle of getting Los Angeles right on the page in publications that are not from here has been something that really concerned me, and I didn’t want to have to write something really carefully and then worry about it being misconstrued.” Janice Rhoshalle Littlejohn speaks to Lynell George about her book After/Image: Los Angeles Outside the Frame.
On BLARB, Robert Wood asks Australian novelist Tim Winton about his latest, The Shepherd’s Hut.
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Ted Hamilton powers through William T. Vollmann’s two-volume Carbon Ideologies, “an elegy to our damned epoch that’s also a work of enlightenment and education.”
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Allyn West explores Alexandra Lange’s The Design of Childhood: How the Material World Shapes Independent Kids.
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Regan Penaluna interviews Robert Fieseler, author of Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation.
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John B. Thompson reviews Hans van de Ven’s China at War: Triumph and Tragedy in the Emergence of the New China 1937-1952.
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Karthick Ram Manoharan considers what it means to live in the time of the victim.
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