Opinion: Los Angeles and the literature of the apocalypse
Apocalypse as a happy ending? Only in Los Angeles. It's an idea that's epicentral to the identity of the place.
Holding On to a Middle-Class Home in a Burning Los Angeles
Recovering from a disaster requires patience. And many working people — especially those whose wealth is tied up in their ...
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Los Angeles Burns
What is at stake here is the entire mysterious history, love and disenchantment intertwined, of Americans and their cities.
How Los Angeles fires became a 'worst-case scenario come to life'
Two weeks after the Palisades and Eaton fires destroyed thousands of homes in two distinct LA-area communities, many in Los ...
Trump fans the flames of Los Angeles wildfires
Donald Trump’s approach to natural disasters is to play politics and withhold aid, while President Biden pledged to pay all ...
The ash left behind by the Los Angeles wildfires might be toxic, experts warn
As some people return to what's left of their homes after the Los Angeles-area wildfires, experts are warning about possible ...
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Opinion: Great writers on Los Angeles
"Los Angeles weather is the weather of catastrophe, of apocalypse," Joan Didion, a native California writer, said in her 1968 ...
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Art has long found inspiration, and foreboding, in the Santa Ana winds
There’s a lesson there. The Santa Ana winds, Los Angeles, apocalypse — these three have always combined for a dark trinity of hope and disaster that has defined the West Coast since its ...
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Los Angeles
Two fast-moving brush fires erupted Tuesday in Los Angeles as dangerous wind conditions and unseasonably dry, warm weather sweep Southern California. The outbreak stemmed from an event at the ...