![]() Nestled inside the story of one gang-related killing is a well-made and timely argument - especially in the wake of the protests in Ferguson, Mo., and over the death of Eric Garner - that transcends a single death. Yet the book is a serious and kaleidoscopic achievement, from a reporter for The Los Angeles Times who’s spent most of her career covering cops and thinking about what their work means. “Ghettoside” is old-school narrative journalism, told strictly in the third person. The depth of the reporting and analysis in “Ghettoside” makes “Serial,” by comparison, resemble a book of poetry. It’s possible to admire “Serial” while praising Ms. Jill Leovy’s powerful new book, “Ghettoside,” also relates the story of a murder, this time of a young black man in South Los Angeles. Her uncertainty was fetching on an existential level. ![]() ![]() ![]() The narrator, Sarah Koenig, all but whispered the story into our ears, and her brainiac sensibility was as interesting as the killing at her story’s core. The true-crime podcast “Serial” was a phenomenon, in part, because it was told in the first person. ![]()
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