...Nickolas Mario Perrone This is a review of two books that cover cooperative movements, communalism, and utopia in California. The review serves as a vehicle for observations on how cooperative communal movements have influenced each other and the development of radical reform and revolutionary...

...Boom Staff Capsule reviews of five new books dealing with science in—and the science of—California. © 2015 by the Regents of the University of California 2015 books book reviews Seeing Like a Rover Janet Vertesi The Oyster Wars Summer Brennan The Rise and Fall of Urban Economics...

...Michael Ziser This is a review essay covering three recent books related to representations of farm labor in California: Richard Steven Street, Everyone Had Cameras: Photography and Farmworkers in California, 1850–2000 (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008); Jan Goggans, California...

...David Lau This essay is a review of two recent books of criticism: Bill Mohr's account of the Los Angeles poetry scene and Ignacio Lopez-Calvo's account of recent film and fiction set in Latino L.A. The essay argues for a conception of L.A. rooted in understanding the political and economic history...

...Michael Ziser Review of Karen Tei Yamashita's book I Hotel . © 2011 by the Regents of the University of California 2011 Karen Tei Yamashita I Hotel 1970s creative nonfiction historical fiction 76 boomca l i f o r n i a . c om Boom: A Journal of California, Vol. 1, Number 4, pps 76 79...

...Michael Ziser This is a review essay covering three recent books related to Native Californian agroecological practices: M. Kat Anderson, Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Management of California’s Natural Resources (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005); Ira Jacknis...

... performances. There s Tom Lutz s LA Review of Books, which has taken the West Coast world of the literature review by storm. LARB really is a worldwide publication, and largely a book review site, accompanied by other creative print media and essays, but nobody has the California beat there. Steve Wasserman...

... HaS laM , a native of Oildale, is professor emeritus at Sonoma State University. He is also the author of twenty books, the editor of eight, and the winner of such diverse honors as a Ralph J. Gleason Award from Rolling Stone, a Bay Area Book Reviewers Award, a Commonwealth Club Medal, two Josephine...

... content through the University of California Press s Rights and Permissions website, httpwww.ucpressjournals.com/reprintInfo.asp. DOI: 10.1525/boom.2012.2.1.75. Book Review: Design on the Edge, A Century of Teaching Architecture at the University of California Berkeley, edited by Waverly Lowell, Elizabeth...

... drive to clean up dirty books and criticism that the infraction of our individual rights is a threat to any adult. 75 The Saturday Review, Reporter, and Nation magazines each published brief statements affirming the poem s First Amendment right and celebrating its legal vindication with phrases like...

... Window on my own and read it without the help or hindrance of literary critics and book reviewers. The cover of my copy of the novel sported a blurb by someone I had never heard of before, named Erle Stanley Gardner, who said, Raymond Chandler is a star of the first magnitude. The High Window...

... team, and financing. First, the website was completely over- hauled by new programmer Ben Hass. Second, the project team had to grow, so we added a communications expert, Susan Ives, a fundraising consultant, Adam Kinsey, and oral historian and book review editor, Sam Redman, among others. Meanwhile...

.... E V E B A C H R A C H is a writer, communications specialist, and managing editor of Boom. She has worked for the Los Angeles Review of Books, Curbed Los Angeles, Oxford University Press, and the British antipoverty organization War on Want. G R A Y B R E C H I N is a historical geographer...

... © 2016 by The Regents of the University of California 2016 CON T R I B U T O R S E V E B A C H R A C H is managing editor of Boom. She has worked for the Los Angeles Review of Books, Curbed Los Angeles, Oxford University Press, and the British antipoverty organization War on Want. J I M B E...

... America, and a lecturer in the Chicana and Chicano Studies department at California State University, Fullerton. E V E B A C H R A C H is managing editor of Boom. She has worked for the Los Angeles Review of Books, Curbed Los Angeles, Oxford University Press, and the British antipoverty organization War...

... Biennale. Aguilar will be the subject of a retrospective as part of LA/LA in 2017. E V E B A C H R A C H is managing editor of Boom. She has worked for the Los Angeles Review of Books, Curbed Los Angeles, Oxford University Press, and the British antipoverty organization War on Want. B A R R O N B I X L E R...

... as a freelance journalist, he covered the 1964 GOP convention at the Cow Palace and wrote an unpublished review of Tom Wolfe s The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby (1965). Editorial quarrels over the coverage of the convention and the Wolfe review led to his split from The National Observer, his...

... © 2014 by the Regents of the University of California 2014 CON T R I B U T O R S E V E B A C H R A C H is a writer, communications specialist, and managing editor of Boom. She has worked for the Los Angeles Review of Books, Curbed Los Angeles, Oxford University Press, and the British...

... © 2015 by the Regents of the University of California 2015 CON T R I B U T O R S E V E B A C H R A C H is managing editor of Boom. She has worked for the Los Angeles Review of Books, Curbed Los Angeles, Oxford University Press, and the British antipoverty organization War on Want. B R U C E...

... with it, around the world. J I M H I N C H is a senior editor at Guideposts magazine and a contributing writer for The Los Angeles Review of Books and other publications. He writes about religion, California, Los Angeles, and the arts. J E N N I F E R S C H E P E R H U G H E S is associate professor of history...