ellie eberlee

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Amid all the LARB talk, don’t lose sight of the original (public!) claim: staff were underpaid & leaving. I’m reading the criticisms of/counterpoints to the “hit piece.” They’re measured and smart. But I believe staff & don’t discount the initial claim abt working conditions. That for me is the rub.

Tasbeeh’s article outlines the policy under Michelle Chihara. When I came on after Chloe, I was able—in part through sheer ignorance of what had come before—to commission writers such as Mary (the opportunity to collaborate with whom was a big part of why I stayed as long as I did)

Tasbeeh’s article outlines the policy under Michelle Chihara. When I came on after Chloe, I was able—in part through sheer ignorance of what had come before—to commission writers such as Mary (the opportunity to collaborate with whom was a big part of why I stayed as long as I did)

“We’re hearing that we’ve raised the second most in history in our annual fund drive, & there’s no indication of where that money is going,” another former editor tells me. “It’s not going to staff salaries, and it’s not going to writers’ rates”
💥Devastating piece about Los Angeles Review of Books💥

Holy hell, LARB.

Against the Wound | Los Angeles Review of Books Jake Romm navigates artistic depictions of genocide and religious violence—some illuminating, others devoid of substance—from Renaissance Italy to modern-day Berlin, in an essay from LARB Quarterly no...

For the @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social I wrote about Luca Giordano's St. Michael, but also about art & empire, & airstrikes, & Gaza

I feel strongly about this one: it articulates something about art and looking that I'd previously struggled with, & also I think it's my best writing about art)

The Point, However, Is to Change It | Los Angeles Review of Books In advance of Andreas Malm and Wim Carton’s forthcoming book “The Long Heat: Climate Politics When It’s Too Late,” Genevieve Guenther revisits the authors’ 2024 title “Overshoot: How the World Surrend...

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/

The Grim State of Trans Health Care With the “Big Beautiful Bill” in flux, and federal funds for gender-affirming care hanging in the balance, protections for trans children and adults continue to be dismantled at the state level.

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/

An Unkillable Streak of the Utopian | Los Angeles Review of Books Sophie Lewis considers Keiran Goddard’s “I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning.”

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...

All That Lovely Old Transsexual Shit | Los Angeles Review of Books Agnes Borinsky appreciates all the ways Vivian Blaxell’s does transness in her book-length essay “Worthy of the Event.”

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.

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We Don’t Have Any Reserves | Los Angeles Review of Books Adam Morgan writes on the impact of Trump’s coup at the NEA for small publishers and literary magazines.

“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

A Show About People Like Them | Los Angeles Review of Books Olivia Stowell considers Danzy Senna’s new novel “Colored Television.”

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...

New Tyrannies | Los Angeles Review of Books Sophie Kemp considers the recent and ongoing radicalization of young men in the United States.

"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-...

I’m actually in Brooklyn for now... probably less of a twist, ha! Anyway: thank you, be well, & I’ll hope to catch you for tea when I’m next back in Ox.

Been a long time since I had the privilege of your eyes on my words, dear Peter - observe, not a page-long footnote in sight!

Sadness and Strange Beauty: On Manjula Martin’s “The Last Fire Season” | Los Angeles Review of... Ellie Eberlee reviews Manjula Martin’s “The Last Fire Season: A Personal and Pyronatural History.”...

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 …

Smoke and Mimesis: On Daniel Gumbiner’s “Fire in the Canyon” | Los Angeles Review of Books Ellie Eberlee reviews Daniel Gumbiner’s “Fire in the Canyon.”...

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