ellie eberlee
@elspethme.bsky.social
managing editor @ larb // swinger of birches
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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)
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)
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...
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September 29, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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)
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)
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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-...
What does this mean? Read my deep dive into Andreas Malm & @wimcarton.bsky.social's *Overshoot*
lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...
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...
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September 13, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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-...
What does this mean? Read my deep dive into Andreas Malm & @wimcarton.bsky.social's *Overshoot*
lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...
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"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/
August 11, 2025 at 3:20 PM
"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/
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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/
July 3, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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/
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“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/
July 1, 2025 at 5:45 PM
“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/
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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.
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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.
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June 29, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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...
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
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“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/
June 25, 2025 at 3:20 PM
“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/
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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/
June 24, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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/
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"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/
June 20, 2025 at 3:15 PM
"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/
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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...
An Unkillable Streak of the Utopian | Los Angeles Review of Books
Sophie Lewis considers Keiran Goddard’s “I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning.”
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June 9, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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...
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Agnes Borinsky is worthy of all of it in The Los Angeles Review of Books.
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.”
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May 26, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Agnes Borinsky is worthy of all of it in The Los Angeles Review of Books.
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"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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"Without these endowments, what holes will be torn in the fabric of American culture?" @thefrontlist.org considers the impact of Trump's coup at the NEA for small publishers and literary magazines. lareviewofbooks.org/article/we-d...
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.
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May 22, 2025 at 4:56 PM
"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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“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...
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...
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.
lareviewofbooks.org
May 16, 2025 at 3:19 PM
“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...
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.
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February 15, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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
lareviewofbooks.org/article/points…
@lareviewofbooks.bsky.social
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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...
lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-sh...
A Show About People Like Them | Los Angeles Review of Books
Olivia Stowell considers Danzy Senna’s new novel “Colored Television.”
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November 22, 2024 at 6:03 PM
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...
lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-sh...
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"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-...
Sophie Kemp considers the recent and ongoing radicalization of young men in the United States. lareviewofbooks.org/article/new-...
New Tyrannies | Los Angeles Review of Books
Sophie Kemp considers the recent and ongoing radicalization of young men in the United States.
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November 14, 2024 at 6:58 PM
"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-...
Sophie Kemp considers the recent and ongoing radicalization of young men in the United States. lareviewofbooks.org/article/new-...
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
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.”...
lareviewofbooks.org
November 14, 2024 at 7:00 AM
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 …
November 14, 2024 at 7:00 AM
Sobering box from the latest @harpers.bsky.social …
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
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.”...
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November 14, 2024 at 7:00 AM
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
November 14, 2024 at 7:00 AM
Failing to see any kind of overreaction here