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Sarah Mesle talks with Arielle Zibrak, Ana Quiring, and Kyla Wazana Tompkins about the “bad” feelings of aesthetic experience....
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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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Decolonizing Education: A Conversation with Linda Tuhiwai Smith
The first installment in a new LARB series of interviews, DECOLONIZE / DEFUND / ABOLISH....
Translating Against World Literature
Nicholas Glastonbury wonders whether translators can afford to wage insurgency against World Literature....
Breaking the Waves: Britney Spears and Lars von Trier in Lockdown
Philippa Snow watches Hulu's Framing Britney Spears and a few other films about the destruction of women at the hands of hateful men....
Crystallized Desire: On Stendhalian Love
Robert Zaretsky explores love in the time of the pandemic through the life and ideas of Stendhal....
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Fabrics, Balloons, Ribbons from the Upper Windows for a Celebration in a Windy Season (1978), Colored pencil, graphite, ink, and pastel on paper 26 x 40 inches; 17th Street Ghost (1981, 2021), Glassine, cellophane, plastic, wood, paint, ribbons, cord, and linen thread 81 x 105 x 84 inches. Images courtesy Gordon Robichaux, NY. Photo by Greg Carideo.
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The true cost of radical Second Amendment interpretation will never be known....
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The Disease Poetics of Empire: A Conversation with Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb
Charles Shafaieh interviews Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb about her debut book, “Epidemic Empire: Colonialism, Contagion, and Terror, 1817–2020.”...
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Suzanne Enzerink explores her own personal revisiting(s) of David Lynch’s “Mulholland Drive” through the lens of white supremacy and misogyny....
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The Bathos of Impact: Ed Smith’s Notebooks and Journals
Sabrina Tarasoff revisits the poetry of Ed Smith....
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