Panic in Echo Park provides a fascinating slice-of-life take on 1970s LA, as well as Hollywood’s awkward effort to be more inclusive and with-it.
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A war is raging in the heart of the History Department — a contest over meaning, power, and […]
Celebrity culture has always involved emulation and envy. People wanted to be as glamorous as Audrey Hepburn or […]
We’re excited to announce that Romeo Guzman is now an associate editor at Tropics of Meta, and will […]
During the mid-1990s, while working evenings and weekends on her PhD dissertation on 18th-century Philadelphia, veteran Library of […]
On October 27, 1964, Ronald Reagan, in an attempt to right a flagging Barry Goldwater campaign, stepped up […]
In her review of 2015’s The Last Love Song, Tracy Daugherty’s biography of famed writer Joan Didion, Meghan […]
Carey McWilliams once called Louis Adamic Los Angeles’ greatest “prophet, sociologist and historian” of the 1920s. Adamic loved […]