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....
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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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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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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 ...
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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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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Not to Be Cynical, But …
Ed Simon evaluates "Cynicism," the recent book from Ansgar Allen....
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June 27 - July 30, 2021
The LARB Publishing Workshop prepares our Fellows to enter the publishing industry. Our goal is to build the future of publishing, student by student, idea by idea, innovation by innovation.
Our curriculum and program of speakers reflect LARB's commitment to innovation, inculsivity, and independent literary production.
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