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Not Only in America: On Benjamin D. Weber’s “American Purgatory”
Spencer J. Weinreich reviews Benjamin D. Weber’s “American Purgatory: Prison Imperialism and the Rise of Mass Incarceration.”
Spencer J. WeinreichOct 28, 2023
- History
- Politics
The Guide to a Game That Doesn’t Exist: On Plastiboo’s “Vermis”
Patrick Fiorilli reviews Plastiboo’s “Vermis,” a strategy guide to a video game that doesn’t exist.
Patrick FiorilliOct 28, 2023
- SF
I Went to Therapy with a Gecko
Brandon SwardOct 28, 2023
Dorothea Lasky’s “The Shining” and Anna Biller’s “Bluebeard’s Castle”
An LARB Radio Hour double-header Halloween horror special. In the first half, Kate Wolf is joined by the poet Dorothea Lasky to discuss her most recent poetry collection, “The Shining.” Then filmmaker Anna Biller speaks with Kate and Medaya Ocher about her first book, “Bluebeard’s Castle.”
LARB Radio HourOct 27, 2023
Marked as a Monster: A Conversation Between Marlena Williams and S. Trimble
Marlena Williams and S. Trimble discuss their shared work on the queer resonances of “The Exorcist.”
Marlena Williams, S. TrimbleOct 27, 2023
- Film
- Gender & Sexuality
The One-Way Ticket to Barcelona
In a preview of the new LARB Quarterly, no. 39: “Air,” Corina Zappia considers the state of travel for single women.
Corina ZappiaOct 27, 2023
The Gift That Chung’s Gave Me: On Curtis Chin’s “Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant”
A. C. Huyen reviews Curtis Chin’s “Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant.”
A. C. HuyenOct 27, 2023
- Cultural Studies
- Memoir & Essay
Speaking of Haunted Language
Alessia DegraeveOct 27, 2023
Other Shapes: On Kate Briggs’s “The Long Form”
Grace Byron reviews Kate Briggs’s “The Long Form.”
Grace ByronOct 26, 2023
- Fiction
A Man Without a Country: On Scott Eyman’s “Charlie Chaplin vs. America”
Chris Yogerst reviews Scott Eyman’s “Charlie Chaplin vs. America: When Art, Sex, and Politics Collided.”
Chris YogerstOct 26, 2023
Before Los Angeles Was Los Angeles
Annie BuckleyOct 26, 2023
Can We Imagine Better Work? On Aviva Briefel and Jason Middleton’s “Labors of Fear”
Brandon R. Grafius reviews Aviva Briefel and Jason Middleton’s “Labors of Fear: The Modern Horror Film Goes to Work.”
Brandon R. GrafiusOct 25, 2023
The Same Water at Different Points: A Conversation with Hala Alyan and Zeina Hashem Beck
Summer Farah interviews Hala Alyan and Zeina Hashem Beck about “We Call to the Eye & the Night: Love Poems by Writers of Arab Heritage.”
Summer FarahOct 25, 2023
- Cultural Studies
- Poetry
Reading in the Conglomerate Era: Or, Do Small Presses Even Exist?
Hilary Plum situates Dan Sinykin’s “Big Fiction: How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing Industry and American Literature” among the ecosystem of small presses in the literary world.
Hilary PlumOct 24, 2023
- Literary Criticism
Reflections of a Moral Realist: On Thomas Nagel’s “Moral Feelings, Moral Reality, and Moral Progress”
Kieran Setiya reviews Thomas Nagel’s “Moral Feelings, Moral Reality, and Moral Progress.”
Kieran SetiyaOct 24, 2023
- Philosophy & Religion
Scary Safe Spaces
Jared KlegarOct 24, 2023