Elif Batuman

Los Angeles-Long Beach has once again been cited the nation’s capital for dirty air, just as LA Mayor Eric Garcetti has made cleaning the air a central plank of his green new deal.

Synth pioneer Suzanne Ciani used an esoteric instrument to design some of the most well-known commercial sounds of the 20th century.

It’s TV staffing season: when writers look for jobs. But this year, writers have fired their agents in their battle over packaging fees.

Seventy sonnets written in the first two hundred days of Trump's presidency,  American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin , by Terrance Hayes, flies out of the cages of…

Edward Goldman talks about the Eleanor Antin exhibition at LACMA and an exhibition by June Edmonds at Luis de Jesus gallery.

The stories in Heads of the Colored People, by Nafissa Thompson-Spires, try to capture what’s human in what otherwise may only be trends.

Edward Goldman talks about dramatic and painful experiences that inspire artists to do their best work.

Growing up in Rockford, Illinois, Bing Liu was obsessed with making skateboarding videos with his friends.

Hunter Drohojowska-Philp talks about their history and L.A.