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Annie BuckleySep 15, 2023
Calm Can Coexist with Fury: A Conversation with Naomi Klein
Editor-in-Chief Michelle Chihara speaks with author Naomi Klein about her new book,“Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World.”
Michelle ChiharaSep 14, 2023
- Nonfiction
- Politics
Nietzsche the Afflicted: On Ritchie Robertson’s “Friedrich Nietzsche”
Kim Solin reviews Ritchie Robertson’s “Friedrich Nietzsche.”
Kim SolinSep 14, 2023
- Philosophy & Religion
Musical Trickery and Subverted Expectations
Danielle CloughSep 14, 2023
Weaponized Plumbing: On Henry Farrell and Abraham L. Newman’s “Underground Empire”
Krzysztof Pelc mostly agrees with Henry Farrell and Abraham L. Newman’s “Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy” but quibbles that it’s hard to draw the line between the peculiarly 21st-century type of influence they describe—which flows from fiber-optic cables, data centers, and dollar clearinghouses—and more conventional types of power.
Krzysztof PelcSep 13, 2023
dude I’m not dead!!! On Alissa Bennett’s “Taxidermist’s Handbook”
Ariella Garmaise reviews Alissa Bennett’s compilation of celebrity-themed zines, collectively titled “Taxidermist’s Handbook.”
Ariella GarmaiseSep 13, 2023
LARB Wins a Whiting Award
LARB StaffSep 13, 2023
Let’s Be Neurotic Together: A Conversation with Cathy Park Hong
Editor-in-Chief Michelle Chihara speaks with author Cathy Park Hong.
Michelle ChiharaSep 12, 2023
- Nonfiction
- Poetry
Art, Law, and Commerce in the Metaverse: On Three New Stories of NFTs
Jessica Rizzo reviews three new books discussing where NFTs came from, where they are going, and whether we should follow—Amy Whitaker and Nora Burnett Abrams’s “The Story of NFTs: Artists, Technology, and Democracy,” Edward Lee’s “Creators Take Control: How NFTs Revolutionize Art, Business, and Entertainment,” Omar Kholeif’s “Internet Art: From the Birth of the Web to the Rise of NFTs.”
Jessica RizzoSep 12, 2023
- Art & Architecture
- Law
Sparse Anchors of Memory
Brandon SwardSep 12, 2023
There’s No Harold Here: On Henry Bean’s “The Nenoquich”
Vincenzo Barney reviews Henry Bean’s newly released novel “The Nenoquich.”
Vincenzo BarneySep 11, 2023
- Fiction
Zeal, Wit, and Fury: The Queer Black Modernism of Claude McKay
Gary Edward Holcomb considers the suppressed legacy of Claude McKay’s two “lost” novels, “Amiable with Big Teeth” and “Romance in Marseille.”
Gary Edward HolcombSep 11, 2023
Political Fictions After September 11th
Brandon SwardSep 11, 2023
Feeling Politics: On D. Berton Emerson and Gregory Laski’s “Democracies in America”
Mark Eaton reviews “Democracies in America: Keywords for the Nineteenth Century and Today,” edited by D. Berton Emerson and Gregory Laski.
Mark EatonSep 10, 2023
- History
- Politics
Trying On a New Self: On Mary Jo Bang’s “A Film in Which I Play Everyone”
Liza Katz Duncan reviews Mary Jo Bang’s “A Film in Which I Play Everyone.”
Liza Katz DuncanSep 10, 2023
- Poetry
North Korea on the Hudson: On Alexander Stille’s “The Sullivanians”
The history of an Upper West Side sex therapy cult isn’t what you think it will be, according to Dave Mandl’s review of Alexander Stille’s “The Sullivanians.”
Dave MandlSep 9, 2023