Category: Reviews
The Great Thirst
A critical appreciation of Norris Hundley, Jr., by Jon Christensen
Saving a Piece of the Fair
New books on the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, reviewed by Elizabeth Logan.
California: Looking Forward—or Backward?
A critical appreciation, by Josh Stephens.
California Coast
New prints by Tom Killion.
The Atlas of California: Mapping the Challenge of a New Era
Explore Richard Walker and Suresh Lodha’s new atlas, which shows a new California in the making. It maps the economic, social, and political trends of a state struggling to maintain its leadership and to continue to offer its citizens the promise of prosperity.
Dances with California
Brenda Hillman’s Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire.
Man with a Mission
Junípero Serra at the Huntington Library through January 6.
Growing the California Dream
Trees in Paradise: A California History by Jared Farmer reviewed.
Origins of the LA Riots
The 1992 Los Angeles riots had roots not in Rodney King but in a killing that brought three very different women to a violent intersection a year earlier.
