Literary Journals Push Back on 'Crisis' as a Manufactured Political and Media Concept
Los Angeles Review of Books—Three prominent literary publications are running essays that interrogate whether widely invoked 'crises' — in truth, migration, and institutional health — are genuine emergencies or political constructs. One argues media-driven 'crisis of truth' framing is itself a distortion; another contends the so-called migrant crisis is a manufactured political narrative rather than an objective emergency. A third examines how institutions systematically defer confronting real problems until they reach a breaking point.