Brad is currently working on a number of book projects, including The Atrocity Exhibition: Life in an Age of Total Violence (The Los Angeles Review of Books Press, 2019) and Ecce Humanitas: Beholding the Pain of Humanity (Columbia University Press, 2020).

Soon he finds himself doing more than keeping her company and discovers the rather large secret that Anne's been hiding in her pants all these years. Through a series of penetrating conversations originally published in the New York Times and the Los Angeles Review of Books, Brad Evans and Natasha Lennard talk with a wide range of cutting edge thinkers--including Oliver Stone, Simon Critchley, and Elaine Scarry--to explore the problem of violence in everyday life, politics, culture, media, language, memory, and the environment. The purpose of the work is to challenge humanity to create more meaningful solutions when it comes to these kinds of violence--or at least to name violence without inadvertently inciting even more anger. Notable contemporary thinkers and creators give their individual perspectives in this compelling look at violence. The range of interviews with leading academics, to filmmakers and artists, is impressive, at once immediate and relevant, but also profoundly philosophical.To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Violence: Humans in Dark Times is an intriguing beginning to a much-needed sustained intellectual and aesthetic response to the horrors of modern times. Brad Evans and Natasha Lennard, the interviewers and the 'authors' of the anthology, have done a remarkable job in bringing together perceptive and intelligent contributors from various fields to scout the reaches of violence.

You also agree to our Terms of Use, and to receive newsletters, account updates and offers sent by BeNaughty. He is currently the lead editor for a dedicated section on violence and the arts/critical theory with The Los Angeles Review of Books. In Violence, Brad Evans and Natasha Lennard have created, alongside their interview subjects, a kaleidoscopic exploration of the concept of violence, in terrains expected and not, in prose taut and unexpectedly gorgeous.These lively, in-depth exchanges among historians, theorists, and artists offer a timely and bracing look at how the increasing expression and acceptance of violence--in all strata of society--has become a defining feature of our times. Angel isn't satisfied with just watching however and Gary is more than happy to let her join in on the fun. Their philosophical rigor provides the reader with an intellectual arsenal against the violence of the current moment. Many of us live today with a pervasive sense of unease, worried that our own safety is at risk, or that of our loved ones, or that of people whose bad circumstances appear to us through networked media. Brad's books have been the recipient of prestigious international awards and translated in many languages, including Spanish, Turkish, Korean and German.