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Various Hellfires: On Elias Canetti’s “I Want to Keep Smashing Myself Until I Am Whole”

Stephen Phelan reviews “I Want to Keep Smashing Myself Until I Am Whole: An Elias Canetti Reader.”...

Sep 27

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STEPHEN PHELAN

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Super Rich Kids with Nothing but Fake Friends: Nadia Lee Cohen’s Dream of L.A.

Porochista Khakpour muses on artist Nadia Lee Cohen's recent creative explorations in Los Angeles....

Sep 27

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POROCHISTA KHAKPOUR

LARB LIT

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The Storykeeper: A Conversation with Svetlana Alexievich

José Vergara and his students ask Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich about how war has shaped her work, as well as about her writing process and Chornobyl’s legacy....

Sep 27

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JOSÉ VERGARA

Such Little Babies: On Tom Perrotta’s “Tracy Flick Can’t Win”

Annie Berke breaks down the appeal of the title character in Tom Perrotta's "Tracy Flick Can't Win."...

Sep 26

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ANNIE BERKE

Silver Screen Diplomacy: On Erich Schwartzel’s “Red Carpet” and Karen Ma's “China’s Millennial Digital Generation”

Susan Blumberg-Kason puts into conversation two books about the intertwined US-Chinese film industries, Erich Schwartzel’s “Red Carpet” and Karen Ma’s “China’s Millennial Digital Generation.”...

Sep 26

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SUSAN BLUMBERG-KASON

The Center Did Not Hold: On Seung Chul Kim’s “The Center Is Everywhere”

Leo D. Lefebure takes a critical look at Seung Chul Kim’s “The Center Is Everywhere.”...

Sep 25

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LEO D. LEFEBURE

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Bathroom (2021) and Align (2019) from JOKE (MACK, 2022). Courtesy of the artist and MACK.

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The Center Did Not Hold: On Seung Chul Kim’s “The Center Is Everywhere”

Leo D. Lefebure takes a critical look at Seung Chul Kim’s “The Center Is Everywhere.”...

LEO D. LEFEBURE

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Melancholy’s the Word: On C. A. Davids’s “How to Be a Revolutionary”

Hilary Lynd reviews South African author C. A. Davids’s latest novel, “How to Be a Revolutionary.”...

HILARY LYND

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A Fierce, Fragile Utopia: A Conversation with Ajit A. George

David M. Higgins talks with Ajit George about “Journeys Through the Radiant Citadel,” the first Dungeons & Dragons book of its kind written entirely by authors of color....