Ajay Orona

Ajay Orona is an associate editor at Alta Journal.  He earned a master’s degree from USC Annenberg’s School of Journalism in 2021 and was honored with an Outstanding Specialized Journalism (The Arts) Scholar Award. His writing has appeared in Los Angeles Review of Books, Ampersand, and GeekOut.

Sep 26, 2022
A Watch Worth the Wait

An obsession with James Bond leads to another obsession: divers.

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Sep 6, 2022
A Cacophony of Conjecture
Julie Otsuka’s The Swimmers, the September California Book Club pick, reveals the limits of language and plays with the range of possib…
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Jun 29, 2022
Blaze of Glory: The Fate of the International Space Station

Amid global tensions and the expansion of privatized space travel, the ISS may soon fall back to Earth.

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Jun 29, 2022
Getting Away from It All

Take a $5 million three-day getaway to outer space’s hottest hotel.

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Jun 29, 2022
Soundtrack of the Stars

Explore a universe of space-themed music with Alta Journal’s Spotify playlist.

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Jun 29, 2022
What to Read on Mars

Tesla founder Elon Musk packs a literary punch.

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Jun 29, 2022
Have Space Agent, Will Travel

An archaic career makes a very modern comeback.

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Jun 9, 2022
Sins of the Ancestors
After you finish Steph Cha’s Your House Will Pay, our June CBC selection, check out these four titles that also reveal the unrelenting …
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Apr 14, 2022
The Sleuth Connection

A former LAPD detective reveals the realities of police work and private investigation.

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Apr 4, 2022
The Madness for NFT Art

NFTs are stealing the spotlight and upending the art world. Their next trick: unlocking the metaverse.

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Feb 8, 2022
Stay Awhile, Mr. Hughes

Four of Langston Hughes’s poems are in conversation with Natalie Diaz’s Postcolonial Love Poem.

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Jan 20, 2022
Welcome to The New Hollywood

Thursday, January 20, 2022

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Jan 4, 2022
Street Art Goes Corporate
Boyle Heights’ DoorDash-sponsored murals and the backlash against fnnch’s honey bears reveal the polarizing rifts in the California gue…
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Dec 9, 2021
The Authentic Southern California of ‘The Barbarian Nurseries’

Four works that, like Héctor Tobar's novel, depict how the many live in SoCal.

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Nov 2, 2021
Resilience Through Storytelling in ‘There There’
Certain insights from Tommy Orange’s debut novel about Urban Indians in Oakland resound across stories of the Armenian genocide as well…
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Oct 29, 2021
Talking with Pete Galindo

The resurgence of street murals is exciting, but their popularity may come at a steep price.

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