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I Don't Want to Have to Think

I wanted to write a memoir but the connective tissue of the memoir didn't interest me. I wanted to render memories that would pop up like mushrooms and quickly vanish. I owe much to where I was raised, in a black ...

Oct 23

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JERVEY TERVALON

Quarterly Journal: No. 31, Semipublic Intellectual Issue

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A Talent for Insanity: On M. E. White’s “In the Balance”

A radical portrayal of female insanity from an unjustly forgotten woman novelist....

Oct 23

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NATASHA YOUNG

On the Chinese Cultural Revolution: Thought Exercises for the 21st Century

LARB presents a conversation with four scholars on the Chinese Cultural Revolution: Lingchei Letty Chen, Nan Z. Da, Frank Dikötter, and Jie Li....

Oct 22

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JIE LI, FRANK DIKÖTTER, LINGCHEI LETTY CHEN, NAN Z. DA

Todd Haynes’s “The Velvet Underground”

Kate Wolf, Medaya Ocher, and Eric Newman speak with director Todd Haynes about his latest movie, and first documentary, “The Velvet Underground.”...

Oct 22

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A Pandemic of Parties

Marlowe Granados’s “Happy Hour” is a party girl novel after a year without parties....

Oct 22

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JAMIE HOOD

Artist’s Choice: Yto Barrada—A Raft

Installation views of Artist’s Choice: Yto Barrada—A Raft, May 8, 2021–January 9, 2022 at The Museum of Modern Art, MoMA New York. Digital Image © 2021 The Museum of Modern Art, MoMA New York. Photo by Denis Doorly.

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Cinema as Airport: On Nora Martirosyan’s “Should the Wind Drop”

Nora Martirosyan’s Should the Wind Drop (Si le vent tombe, 2020), is set in Nagorno-Karabakh, a republic that does not exist on Google Earth nor in the eyes of the international community. So why do some people insist on seeing ...