Lovecraft EZine Issue 34

By Mike Davis

Buda's Wagon

By Mike Davis

The brilliant and disturbing 100-year history of modern terrorism and car bombs—the ubiquitous weapon of urban mass destruction On a September day in 1920, an angry Italian anarchist named Ma...

Magical Urbanism

By Mike Davis

Winner of the 2001 Carey McWilliams AwardIs the capital of Latin America a small island at the mouth of the Hudson River? Will California soon hold the balance of power in Mexican national politics...

Old Gods, New Enigmas

By Mike Davis

Is revolution possible in the age of the Anthropocene?Marx has returned, but which Marx? Recent biographies have proclaimed him to be an emphatically nineteenth-century figure, but in this book, Mi...

Late Victorian Holocausts

By Mike Davis

This global environmental and political history “will redefine the way we think about the European colonial project” (Observer). “ . . . sets the triumph of the late 19th-centur...

Prisoners of the American Dream

By Mike Davis

This comprehensive study of class struggle in America asks: Why has there never been a mass working class party in the U.S.? “One of the most uncompromising books about American political e...

Ecology of Fear

By Mike Davis

A witty and engrossing look at Los Angeles' urban ecology and the city's place in America's cultural fantasiesEarthquakes. Wildfires. Floods. Drought. Tornadoes. Snakes in the sea, mountain lions,...

The Monster Enters

By Mike Davis

A new edition of a classic book on viral catastrophes--the Spanish flu, the Avian flu, and now, Covid-19In his book, The Monster at Our Door,  the renowned activist and author Mike Davis warne...

Planet of Slums

By Mike Davis

The “profound . . . brilliant” account of the rise of the world’s slums and the failures of modern urbanization—by the world’s leading urbanist (Arundhati Roy, activis...

City of Quartz

By Mike Davis

This new edition of the visionary social history of Los Angeles is “as central to the L.A. canon as anything that . . . Joan Didion wrote in the seventies” (New Yorker).No metropolis ha...