David L Ulin is Alta Journal’s books editor.
In Everybody Knows, Jordan Harper seeks to reimagine Hollywood noir.
In Cheap Land Colorado, Ted Conover goes off the grid.
In February, Thom Mayne will publish M3: Modeled Works [Archive] 1972-2022.
Isabel Allende’s The House of the Spirits is the California Book Club’s March 2023 selection.
Andrew Sean Greer’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel is the California Book Club’s February 2023 selection.
Isabel Allende’s attempt to make legend from one’s story is the California Book Club’s March 2023 selection.
Jaime Hernandez’s collected early contributions to Love and Rockets is the California Book Club’s January 2023 selection.
In South Central Noir, Gary Phillips showcases 14 takes on Los Angeles.
With The Passenger and Stella Maris, Cormac McCarthy frames the quantum novel.
Mike Davis wrote the vernacular of Los Angeles.
In Predator, Ander Monson unpacks 35 years of thinking about a film.
John Gregory Dunne’s Vegas is an epic of displacement.
Jaime Cortez’s collection of intimate gestures of community is the California Book Club’s December 2022 selection.
The second volume in Kim Stanley Robinson’s Three Californias trilogy is the California Book Club’s November 2022 selection.
Natalia Molina’s book of history and family is the California Book Club’s October 2022 selection.
The stories in T.C. Boyle’s I Walk Between the Raindrops take on a complicated world.
Thomas Mann’s Los Angeles illuminates the author’s experience in California.
Julie Otsuka’s book of voices is the California Book Club’s September 2022 selection.
Rabih Alameddine’s intimate look at the refugee crisis is the California Book Club’s August 2022 selection.
Luis J. Rodriguez’s 1993 memoir is the California Book Club’s July 2022 selection.
After suffering a massive stroke, Marianne Wiggins sought help to complete her new novel, Properties of Thirst.
More City Than Water looks at Houston’s Hurricane Harvey through a wide-angle lens.
In The High Sierra: A Love Story, Kim Stanley Robinson traces a relationship with place.
Mark Haber discusses his novel Saint Sebastian’s Abyss and the vagaries of art.
Maggie Nelson pens a “magnificent anti-memoir of the brain and of the heart.”
Steph Cha’s masterful fourth novel resets the parameters of crime fiction.
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Michael Connelly’s latest novel challenges the role of the police procedural in a defund-the-police world.
In A Ballad of Love and Glory, Reyna Grande reframes the Mexican-American War.
Thinking about Jack Kerouac on the 100th anniversary of his birth.
