![]() ![]() ![]() I was too young to participate in the Summer of Love or attend Woodstock, but when I reached my teen years not long after these events, I couldn’t imagine society going back to its earlier stodgy ways. The strange part about this is that during my coming-of-age, in the aftermath of the counterculture, I firmly believed that it had triumphed. It was an experience (to use a popular word of the era), but experiences don’t last, by definition - perhaps that’s even what makes them so special. THE COUNTERCULTURE of the 1950s and 1960s now seems like a relic of the distant past, as quaint and charming as those colorful hippie outfits and thrift store love beads, but with about as much real-world impact as an LSD trip. ![]() Like so many literary and arts organizations, our funding has been upended and we need your support now more than ever. The Los Angeles Review of Books is a reader-supported nonprofit, providing free coverage of culture, politics, and the arts. LARB IS ALWAYS OPEN - open-minded, open access, open for debate, open-ended, open to you. ![]()
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