Adriana Ramirez

3 days ago | post-gazette.com | Adriana Ramirez |Adriana E. Ramírez

“The pace of oppression outstrips our ability to understand it,” says Karis Nemik to the eponymous Cassian Andor of the Disney+ series “Andor,” set in the “Star Wars” universe. “That is the real trick of the Imperial Thought Machine. It’s easier to hide behind 40 atrocities than a single incident.”It’s easy to see why so many people have noted the prescient nature of those words from the show’s 2022 first season.

5 days ago | post-gazette.com | Adriana Ramirez |Adriana E. Ramírez

This Mother’s Day, after my family inquired what I wanted as a gift, I requested a book. A few hours later, a friend of mine, firmly a Gen Zer and fifteen years my junior, asked how I was celebrating the holiday. “You know,” she texted me when I told her, “that you can just ask ChatGPT for a summary of the book, right? You don’t have to read it.” She knows that I’m a book critic, and wanted me to avoid “doing work for fun.”The problem, I explained, is that the summary doesn’t give me what I want.

1 week ago | post-gazette.com | Adriana Ramirez |Adriana E. Ramírez

In my life, I have loved someone with bipolar disorder. I have loved this person beyond comprehension, beyond what anyone would call reasonable, and beyond the limits of most television protagonists. I have loved someone with bipolar disorder to my own detriment at times. I know the highs and the lows. I know how impossible and how amazing it can be. I know well the moments when the heart thinks it can only take so much, and then circumstances prove the heart’s capacity is unfathomable.

1 week ago | post-gazette.com | Adriana Ramirez |Adriana E. Ramírez

When natural disasters come, the story that is told usually centers around preparations and the storm itself. I know this, as I grew up with hurricanes on the Texas Gulf Coast, and I can name old tropical storms like deadly childhood friends. My family often recounts the grief and hale that came with Hurricane Gilbert. We still remember the waist-high-water damage of Allison.

2 weeks ago | post-gazette.com | Adriana Ramirez |Adriana E. Ramírez

I wasn’t sure what to expect at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books in 2025. I’ve been attending the event since 2016, when I was named critic-at-large for the L.A. Times Book section, and this year more than any other reminded me how important events like this really are.