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A Political Garden of Eden

Matthew Porges reviews “The Dawn of Everything,” the new book by David Wengrow and David Graeber....

Jan 19

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MATTHEW PORGES

HISTORY

Quarterly Journal: No. 32, 10th Anniversary Issue

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Operation Welcome Allies

Here is a tonic for the bleakness and anger of our current age of discontent: the sentiments of Afghans who have recently come to America fleeing conflict and persecution by the Taliban. They mirror for us a view of America and ...

Jan 19

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MARCELO SUÁREZ-OROZCO

Every Age Gets the Mythology It Deserves

Colin Burgess’s “The Greatest Adventure: A History of Human Space Exploration” fails to take off....

Jan 19

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MICHAEL D. GORDIN

“This Feeling Will Never Leave Me”: On Yelena and Galina Lembersky’s “Like a Drop of Ink in a Downpour”

Herb Randall plunges into “Like a Drop of Ink in a Downpour,” a memoir of art, imprisonment, and emigration by Yelena and Galina Lembersky....

Jan 18

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HERB RANDALL

Reading (With Love) Again

When I was younger, before marriages and divorces, moving about 13 times, twice across country, and finally settling back in LA for my full-time English professor’s job, reading was my superpower. But lately, okay, for the last four or five ...

Jan 18

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SHONDA BUCHANAN

Blondell Cummings

In Night Stir (1983) Dir. by Kay Hines and Dieter Froese, video still from video artwork; The Ladies and Me (1980) video still from performance documentation ©The Estate of Blondell Cummings.

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Living, Breathing Expressions of Self: On Jennifer Higgie’s “The Mirror and the Palette”

Higgie’s book tells a remarkable story of women artists’ self-possession and creativity....

PARIS A. SPIES-GANS

ART & ARCHITECTURE

Recovering the Female Clerics of the Early Church

LARB presents the sixth entry in “Pasts Imperfect,” a column that explores the impact of ancient pasts on the present....

SHAILY PATEL, SARAH E. BOND

PASTS IMPERFECT

Unyielding Soil: On Stephen G. Bloom’s “Blue Eyes, Brown Eyes: A Cautionary Tale of Race and Brutality”

The mixed legacy of a groundbreaking experiment in racial prejudice....

JASON M. THORNBERRY

POLITICS

The Guts of the Living: On Polina Barskova’s “Air Raid”

Ainsley Morse and Michael M. Weinstein dive into “Air Raid,” a collection of poems by Polina Barskova, translated from the Russian by Valzhyna Mort....