Larissa Pham’s “Pop Song: Adventures in Art and Intimacy”
Larissa Pham joins Medaya Ocher and Eric Newman to discuss her debut collection, “Pop Song: Adventures in Art and Intimacy.”...
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Quarterly Journal: No 29, High/Low Issue
Read online exclusives from the High/Low Issue of our Print Quarterly Journal, browse the table of contents, and become a LARB member to get the e-book....
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The Cold War Industry: On Louis Menand’s “The Free World” and Anne Searcy’s “Ballet in the Cold War”
Harlow Robinson weighs “The Free World” by Louis Menand against “Ballet in the Cold War” by Anne Searcy....
Finding the Story: A Conversation with Lilly Dancyger
Lilly Dancyger discusses her new memoir about her artist father, “Negative Space.”...
Death Ship Earth: On Mira L. Siegelberg’s “Statelessness”
Hadji Bakara examines Mira L. Siegelberg’s recently published legal history, “Statelessness.”...
LARB’s Best: Humanities
These pieces demonstrate the sustained and sustaining strength of the humanities, a discipline in perpetual crisis....
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Organic Music Societies
Organic Music by Moki Cherry (1976) Textile appliqué 69 ⅝ × 69 ⅝ inches; Untitled by Moki Cherry (1968) Textile appliqué 21 ⅞ × 27 ¾ inches. Images from the exhibition Organic Music Societies at Blank Forms. Photos courtesy of Blank Forms and the Cherry Archive, the estate of Moki Cherry. Photographer: Rob Racine.
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Writing Toward Liberation: Jody Armour, Bidhan Chandra Roy, and Maytha Alhassen
On April 5, 2021, the Los Angeles Review of Books hosted a timely virtual conversation with Jody Armour, Roy P. Crocker Professor of Law at USC, and Bidhan Chandra Roy, Professor of English at Cal State LA and founder of Words ...
To Keep My Brother Alive, I Will Fly 7,500 Miles
Dipika Mukherjee traverses time and space to visit her brother after a tragic accident in this personal essay....
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Colorblind No More?
Helen Cabrera reviews Elwood David Watson’s recent collection of essays, “Keepin’ It Real.”...
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A Remembered World: On Russell Banks’s “Foregone”
Russell Banks’s new novel “Foregone” is his most metafictional work to date....
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Second Acts: A Second Look at Poetry Collections by Judith Hall
Lisa Russ Spaar revisits “Anatomy, Errata” and “Prospects” by Judith Hall....
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