Voices
D. J. Waldie is the author of Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir, Where We Are Now, House, and other books. Los Angeles Magazine named him one of the city’s most influential interpreters in 2006. He received the Dale Prize in Urban and Regional Planning in 2017 for his commentaries on the history of suburbanization.
Politics & SocietyNews Analysis
Among the hopeful and fearful seeking their place in an occupied city, the Virgin—Patroness of All the Americas—is a sign that a community with humane borders and greater compassion may be possible.
Arts & CultureBooks
Los Angeles is a city that grabs you by the arm—nearly by the throat—and insists you hear another explanation of what it means.