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Multihyphenated Identity in Young Adult Fiction: On Emily Bowen Cohen’s “Two Tribes”
Na’amit Sturm Nagel reviews Emily Bowen Cohen’s young adult graphic novel “Two Tribes.”
Na’amit Sturm NagelSep 20, 2023
- Young Adult & Children’s Literature
A Fireball in the Marshall Islands: How a Nuclear Test Changed the World
Émile P. Torres describes how it was not the dropping of the atom bombs in 1945 but the testing of a nuclear bomb is the Marshall Islands in 1954 that marked the moment when people became preoccupied with human extinction.
Émile P. TorresSep 20, 2023
Charles Yu & George Saunders Reunited
LARB StaffSep 20, 2023
What Drove Popeye to the Picket Line: The Story of “Fleischer’s Animated News”
“Fleischer’s Animated News,” an animation industry comic from the 1930s, satirized working conditions similar to those motivating the Hollywood strikes today, as Paul Morton discusses.
Paul MortonSep 19, 2023
- Comics
- Film
An Insider’s Look at China’s Outside Reality: On Daniel Bell’s “The Dean of Shandong”
Paul J. D’Ambrosio reviews Daniel Bell’s “The Dean of Shandong: Confessions of a Minor Bureaucrat at a Chinese University.”
Paul J. D’AmbrosioSep 19, 2023
- Philosophy & Religion
- Politics
Excited Atoms
Brandon SwardSep 19, 2023
The Lines That Cannot Be Broken: On Krisztina Tóth’s “Barcode”
Daniel W. Pratt reviews a new translation of Hungarian author Krisztina Tóth’s story collection “Barcode.”
Daniel W. PrattSep 18, 2023
- Fiction
Every Second Counts: On FX’s “The Bear”
Alexandra J. Gold considers the centrality of time in the second season of FX’s “The Bear.”
Alexandra J. GoldSep 18, 2023
- Food & Drink
- Television
Critically Cringe: On Susan Neiman’s “Left Is Not Woke”
Samuel C. Huneke takes Susan Neiman’s “Left Is Not Woke” to task.
Samuel Clowes HunekeSep 17, 2023
- Cultural Studies
- Politics
Globalizing China or Sinicizing the Global? On Alexander Statman’s “A Global Enlightenment” and Ali Humayun Akhtar’s “1368”
Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh reviews Alexander Statman’s “A Global Enlightenment: Western Progress and Chinese Science” and Ali Humayun Akhtar’s “1368: China and the Making of the Modern World.”
Gianamar Giovannetti-SinghSep 17, 2023
- History
The Wound That Won’t Heal: On Norman Manea’s “Exiled Shadow”
Cory Oldweiler reviews Romanian author Norman Manea’s newly translated novel “Exiled Shadow.”
Cory OldweilerSep 16, 2023
- Fiction
Feminism Without Borders: On Hawon Jung’s “Flowers of Fire” and Aviva Wei Xue and Kate Rose’s “Weibo Feminism”
Nina Pasquini reviews Hawon Jung’s “Flowers of Fire: The Inside Story of South Korea’s Feminist Movement and What It Means for Women’s Rights Worldwide” and Aviva Wei Xue and Kate Rose’s “Weibo Feminism: Expression, Activism, and Social Media in China.”
Nina PasquiniSep 16, 2023
- Gender & Sexuality
- Politics
Winning at Being Canceled
Madeleine ConnorsSep 16, 2023
Thea Lenarduzzi’s “Dandelions”
Writer and longtime TLS editor Thea Lenarduzzi joins Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher to speak about her debut book “Dandelions,” a winner of the Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize.
LARB Radio HourSep 15, 2023
School Spirit: Debts and Gifts from Wallace and Lethem
Colin Flynn remembers learning from David Foster Wallace and Jonathan Lethem.
Colin FlynnSep 15, 2023
- Memoir & Essay
Annals of an Alternate World: On John McPhee’s “Tabula Rasa”
Noah Rawlings reviews John McPhee’s “Tabula Rasa.”
Noah RawlingsSep 15, 2023
- Memoir & Essay
- Nonfiction