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Feel this Now: Jennifer Doyle's "Hold It Against Me"The Drugs Don’t Work: Tao Lin’s “Taipei”God in Wayward Forms: Jamie Quatro’s Salvation-Seeking AdulteressesRevenge of the Dryasdusts: Paul Hazard’s “The Crisis of the European Mind”A City for Children in the Work of E. L. KonigsburgLiberal Bias or Neoliberal Bias?: Neil Gross's "Why Are Professors Liberal and Why Do Conservatives Care?"Rewiring Literary CriticismPandas, Professors, and Promises, or, The MOOC Will Not Set Us FreeA Ladymass in the Distrito Federal: Veronica Gonzalez Peña's "The Sad Passions"The Weight of History: Colum McCann’s "TransAtlantic"Second Acts: A Second Look at Second Books by Geri Doran and Michael S. HarperPeak Adventure: On Mountaineering and the Enlightenment see all reviews »
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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 Four see all essays »
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[VIDEO] Mary Otis, "Yes, Yes, Cherries"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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Daniel Olivas interviews Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs

“La Chicana Verdadera: Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs on Helena María Viramontes ”

May 30th, 2013
Casey Burchby interviews George Saunders

“Language Made Joyous: A Conversation with George Saunders”

January 16th, 2013
Jean Stein interviews Dennis Hopper, Terry Southern and Terry Southern

“Larry Flynt at Home”

June 10th, 2011
Jonathan Hahn interviews Amy Ziering and Kirby Dick

“Letter Received”

June 22nd, 2012
Anthony McCann interviews Catherine Wagner

“Lie Down in the Ha-Ha: A Conversation between Anthony McCann and Catherine Wagner”

October 23rd, 2012
David Breithaupt interviews Lizzy Miles

“Living It Up at the Death Café: An Interview with Lizzy Miles”

June 16th, 2013
Clarissa Romano interviews Francesca Lia Block

“The LARB Interview: Francesca Lia Block”

April 23rd, 2012
Casey Burchby interviews Chris Ware

“The Life Cycle of the Cartoonist: An Interview with Chris Ware ”

October 25th, 2012
LARB Minifilms interviews Judith Freeman

“The Long Embrace”

April 18th, 2012

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