LARB
Los Angeles Review of Books
REVIEWS
REVIEWS
Answers on a Postcard: Departures, or Some Accidental British Debuts
Delusions of Progress: Psychiatry's Diagnostic Manual
The Secrets of Consciousness and the Problem of God
“Tangled in Death”: Richard Lange's "Angel Baby"
A Transformed Legal Profession Faces the Future: Barry A. Sanders on “The Lawyer Bubble”
The World’s Bloodiest Civil War
To Be Seen, To Be Heard: Erica Lorraine Scheidt's "Uses For Boys"
Tesser Well: Rebecca Stead's "When You Reach Me"
Devourer of Encyclopedias: Stanislaw Lem's "Summa Technologiae"
Publishers on a Mission
Empire and the Mau Mau: A Story of Colonialism and Counter-Insurgency
FDR: Good for the Jews?
Scientology: The Mystery Sandwich
Untied, Undone: "Bough Down" by Karen Green
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ESSAYS
ESSAYS
Syria, On the Cusp of Hipness, Then Fading
Carousel Country: Of Power Wars and Populism in Argentina
Lost Causes: The Novels of Kim Young-ha
If the SAT Were a Key to All Mythology
Hollywood Bigfoot: Terrence Malick and the Twenty-Year Hiatus That Wasn't
Conversion Experience: Terrence Malick’s "To The Wonder"
How To Think More (But Not Better): Alain de Botton’s School of Life
Hurt Into Poetry: On Poetry and Greece
Marx, Public Choice Theory, and the Utility-Maximizing Consumer
Untucking "RuPaul's Drag Race"
Object Man: On Llyn Foulkes at the Hammer
Letter From Cuba: The Religious Revival of a Communist State
Dick Nixon, To Kick Around Evermore
Single Payer Health Insurance Bill Orphaned In California
Ragged But Right: Wayne White on George Jones
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INTERVIEWS
INTERVIEWS
PODCAST #29: Nathaniel Rich, "Odds Against Tomorrow"
[VIDEO] LA Times Festival of Books: Ask the Authors
[VIDEO] Rachel Kushner, "The Flamethrowers"
Eternal Sleep: The Uyghur Shrines of the Taklamakan Desert
James Franco on His Adaptation of Faulkner’s "As I Lay Dying"
PODCAST #28: Anna Stothard, "The Pink Hotel"
Married Love: A Conversation with Tessa Hadley
Just This Side of Tragic: An Interview with Benjamin Alire Sáenz
[VIDEO] Marisa Silver on her latest, "Mary Coin"
PODCAST #27: Colin Dickey
Fifty Years of Filmmaking: An Interview with William Friedkin
[VIDEO] Aleksandar Hemon on his latest "The Book of My Lives"
The Innermost Law of the Form: An Interview with David Shields
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"I would sit in front of the class and pretend to have answers to their questions about geometry, hi...
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