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A Single Dish a Thousand Times: On Rebecca May Johnson's “Small Fires”
Siobhan Phillips reviews Rebecca May Johnson’s “Small Fires: An Epic in the Kitchen.”
Siobhan PhillipsJun 20, 2023
Performing the Patient: On Emily Wells’s “A Matter of Appearance”
Emma Cohen reviews Emily Wells’s memoir of chronic illness, “A Matter of Appearance.”
Emma R. CohenJun 20, 2023
- Memoir & Essay
- Nonfiction
Racial Resentment and the Scavenging Beast: On Erin E. Adams’s “Jackal”
Shannon Scott reviews Erin E. Adams’s “Jackal.”
Shannon ScottJun 19, 2023
- SF
On Other Intelligences: A Conversation with Mashinka Firunts Hakopian
Nora N. Khan interviews writer and artist Mashinka Firunts Hakopian about her new book, “The Institute for Other Intelligences.”
Nora N. KhanJun 19, 2023
- Art & Architecture
- Science & Technology
Romantic Myths of American Environmentalism: On Scott Chaskey’s “Soil and Spirit”
Jenny Liou reviews Scott Chaskey’s “Soil and Spirit: Cultivation and Kinship in the Web of Life.”
Jenny LiouJun 18, 2023
- Nonfiction
- Science & Technology
To Sanitize the Master’s Corpus: On the Heidegger Hoax
Richard Wolin shows how Martin Heidegger’s literary executors manipulated his manuscripts to disguise and downplay the philosopher’s antisemitism.
Richard WolinJun 18, 2023
- Philosophy & Religion
Studies in Heresy: On the Intimate Translations and Translated Intimacies of Bruno Schulz
Josh Billings details the challenges of translating the great Polish writer Bruno Schulz.
Josh BillingsJun 17, 2023
- Fiction
Suffering the Smoldering Wrath: On Allen Goodman’s “Everyone Against Us”
Dana Garcetti reviews Allen Goodman’s “Everyone Against Us: Public Defenders and the Making of American Justice,” in which the author, a former public defender, testifies to the vivid human suffering at the heart of the American criminal justice system.
Dana GarcettiJun 17, 2023
- Law
- Politics
Martine Syms’s “Loser Back Home”
Kate Wolf is joined by the acclaimed artist and filmmaker Martine Syms to discuss her new exhibition “Loser Back Home.”
LARB Radio HourJun 16, 2023
Imaginative Rebels: A Conversation Between Terese Svoboda and Jim Ruland
Jim Ruland and Terese Svoboda talk about themes of loss, addiction, and rebellion in their latest novels, Make It Stop and Dog on Fire.
Jim Ruland, Terese SvobodaJun 16, 2023
- Fiction
- Noir
Where the Humanities Are Not in Crisis
Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera discusses the systemic inequities in who gets to define the “crisis” in literary studies.
Jeffrey Herlihy-MeraJun 16, 2023
- Education
The Divine City: On J. T. Roane’s “Dark Agoras”
Charles McKinney reviews J. T. Roane’s “Dark Agoras: Insurgent Black Social Life and the Politics of Place.”
Charles W. McKinneyJun 15, 2023
- History
Out from the Shadow of the Vampire: On Chris McKay’s “Renfield”
Olivia Rutigliano follows the figure of Renfield from Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel ‘Dracula’ through various adaptations, culminating in Chris McKay’s 2023 film “Renfield.”
Olivia RutiglianoJun 15, 2023
- Film
- SF
Footnotes of the Avenues: An Introduction to Stephen Hilger’s “In the Alley”
Matthew Spektor analyzes the Los Angeles photography of Stephen Hilger’s “In the Alley.”
Matthew SpecktorJun 14, 2023
- Art & Architecture
- Memoir & Essay
A Century of Writing Back: How Salma Khadra Jayyusi Brought Arabic Literature to the Anglophone World
Dima Ayoub describes the long and multivarious career of Palestinian author and critic Salma Khadra Jayyusi.
Dima AyoubJun 14, 2023
From Quiet Desperation to Quiet Quitting: On John Kaag and Jonathan van Belle’s “Henry at Work”
Geoffrey Kirsch reviews John Kaag and Jonathan van Belle’s “Henry at Work: Thoreau on Making a Living.”
Geoffrey KirschJun 13, 2023
- Philosophy & Religion