All posts by Ian Tyrrell
The unfulfilled American dream stalks Mike Davis’s dystopian Los Angeles in his masterful City of Quartz
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. In an occasional series, we look at books that have become cultural touchstones. The death of the radical historian Mike Davis, on October 25 in San Diego, brings back memories of Los Angeles, and of Davis’s landmark book…