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But What About the Soul: Poets at the Movies (Part 1)Bloomsday 2013: John JoyceMr. Chan and the MachineMOOCs and the Future of the Humanities: A Roundtable (Part 2)MOOCs and the Future of the Humanities: A Roundtable (Part 1)Rape in the Military: Ben Klay's TestimonyLove, Loneliness, Rot: "That Smell" and Egypt Under Nasser The White Worm: Shane Carruth's "Upstream Color"What’s Left to Say? Four Fitzgerald Scholars on Baz Luhrmann’s Gatsby“Bliss Unending”: Why Luhrmann’s Dangerously Romantic Take On Gatsby WorksHow To Read AgambenThe Empty Chair: A Petition for Ghassan ZaqtanPost-Structural Integrity: "Arrested Development," Season FourTen Things I Learned From Loving "Anne of Green Gables" see all essays »
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Living It Up at the Death Café: An Interview with Lizzy MilesDigging Into Crimes: A Conversation with Peter May[VIDEO] Matthew Specktor, "American Dream Machine"Funambulism: An Interview with Colum McCannPODCAST #32: Jeff Weiss & Evan McGarvey, "2pac vs. Biggie"The Public Life of Poetry: An Interview with Natasha TretheweyThe Second Act of Alex Espinoza[VIDEO] Stephen Burt, "Belmont: Poems"50 Years of NYRB: An Interview with Robert Silvers Paul Farmer: What He’s Afraid of, and What’s Wrong With The Way We Do AidContextual Loneliness: An Interview with Fiona MaazelPODCAST #31: Marc Maron, "Attempting Normal"[VIDEO] Tom Bissell and The Perks of Being a Dilettante see all interviews »
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No Land’s Man: Edward Everett Hale’s “The Man Without A Country” Turns 150
by Alexander Zaitchik

On Hale's 'The Man Without A Country'

March 24th, 2013
Frank O'Hara, Valentine
by Matthew Zapruder

February 14th, 2013
Heart-Shaped Box: LARB Poetry Valentine Edition
by Dan Beachy-Quick, Reginald Dwayne Betts, Natalie Diaz, Alex Dimitrov, Eloise Klein Healy, Sean Hill, Brett Fletcher Lauer, Dana Levin, Adrian Matejka, Jill McDonough, Lynn Melnick, John Murillo, Meghan O'Rourke, Jessica Piazza, Sarah Vap and Matthew Zapruder

February 14th, 2013
Hubris and Envy: The Lehrer Affair
by Robert Zaretsky

A very different take on l‘affaire Lehrer

August 14th, 2012
The Sideways Gaze: Roland Barthes’s Travels in China
by Dora Zhang

A unique record of Barthes’s failure to offer a portrait of China.

June 23rd, 2012
A Three Act Journey in the Land of the Screenwriting Gurus
by Jonathan Zimmerman

The education of a screenwriter

November 21st, 2012

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