The Economist (US), August 22nd, 1992
SEX DEATH AND GOD IN L.A. Edited by David Reid. Pantheon; 354 pages; $22 THE OTHER SIDE. By Ruben Martinez. Verso Books; 168 pages; $24.95 and Pounds 19.95 AFTER HENRY. By Joan Didion. Simon & Schuster; 319 pages; $22 INTRODUCING his new collection of essays on Los Angeles, David Reid compares the city to ancient Alexandria, "another self-advertising megalopolis", which for nearly 1,000 years was "the global capital of science, scholarship, mass media, mystery religions, occultism, advanced sensuality and avant-garde schools of asceticism." But not books. During the Los Angeles riots, when ...
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