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Turning Point? 9/11 and the Dark Side
Saree Makdisi looks deeply at Netflix’s “Turning Point: 9/11 and the War on Terror.”...
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Colin Burnett explores the racial politics of the Bond franchise in the wake of a new Black woman agent joining the latest film, “No Time to Die.”...
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Stanislav Aseyev reflects on his time as a prisoner of separatist forces in an excerpt from his new book, “The Torture Camp on Paradise Street,” and in an interview with Kate Tsurkan....
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Reckless Reader: Brookline Booksmith
Miranda Hellmond-Stone introduces the newest member of LARB's Reckless Reader program, Brookline Booksmith in Brookline, MA....
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What Is Literature For?: A Symposium on Angus Fletcher’s “Wonderworks”
Keith P. Mankin, Ed Simon, and Erik J. Larson each review Angus Fletcher’s “Wonderworks,” and Fletcher responds....
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“The Shifting Half-Truths We Manage to Glean”: A Conversation with Nawaaz Ahmed
The author discusses his new novel, “Radiant Fugitives,” about what it means to be Muslim and queer in post-9/11 America....
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Deep(er) Nostalgia: Formulating Tech’s In-control Valley and Uncanny Asymptote
With the release of MyHeritage’s Deep Nostalgia, Justin Tackett reflects on how reproduction technologies throughout history have honed “the human.”...
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