Reappraisals

The Strange Career of Joan Didion, Cop Hater

Scott Saul

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December 9, 2025

“‘On Becoming a Cop Hater’ remains the only one of Didion’s Saturday Evening Post columns never republished in her essay collections. Why did she choose to shed it?” —Scott Saul

A Theater of the Absurd Brought to Life: Gavin Lambert

Scott Saul

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October 20, 2024

“Lambert's vision of the city—which drew out the incongruities and refused to lampoon them—helped him become one of the great chroniclers of LA” —Scott Saul

The World Dick Made: Philip K. Dick

Jeff Hewitt

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March 10, 2023

“Like Nixon, Dick’s views were shaped by the Cold War... Few of his contemporaries managed such razor-sharp satire of the times.” —Jeff Hewitt

The Things He Felt: Leonard Michaels

Jesse Tisch

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April 7, 2022

We Grew Under the Sky: Outlaw Builders, Part II

Cole Hersey

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December 13, 2021

“We grew under the sky rather than under a ceiling. We worked to the sounds of nature, rather than the hum of fluorescent lights.” —Cole Hersey

The Scout: Sim Van der Ryn & the Outlaw Builders

Cole Hersey

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June 12, 2021

“Students built and salvaged all their own materials for the homes they were to create, along with a few larger communal projects.” —Cole Hersey

Furniture As Comrade: Enzo Mari

Francesco Milan

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November 20, 2020

“Enzo Mari's Autoprogettazione was conceived as a ‘practical-critical exercise’ in raising awareness for the design process behind common consumer items.” —Francesco Milan