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Memory Dismembered
Kurt Guldentops and Sungshin Kim review Bora Chung’s “Red Sword,” newly translated by Anton Hur.
Archive
Common Roots
Martin Dolan explores labor, trade, and shared humanity in Craig Thompson’s “Ginseng Roots.”
Dogs of the Solar Steppe
Ari Braverman writes about a woman exiled to the countryside, in a short story from LARB Quarterly no. 46: “Alien.”
Dogito, Ergo Sum
Isabel Jacobs considers Aaron Schuster’s “How to Research Like a Dog: Kafka’s New Science.”
Chris Kraus’s “The Four Spent the Day Together”
Chris Kraus joins Kate Wolf to talk about her new novel, “The Four Spent the Day Together.”
Crisis Makes Weird
Harrison Blackman discusses the aesthetics and politics of Greek cinema’s Weird Wave.
Leah Umansky’s “Ars Poetica: The Thing Is …”
Leah Umansky offers a treatise on living among nature, in a poem from LARB Quarterly no. 46: “Alien.”
Mausoleum of Dreams
Oliver Evans reviews Will Sloan’s new biography “Ed Wood: Made in Hollywood USA.”
Double Vision [VIDEO]
Michael Kurcfeld interviews Elmgreen & Dragset on the occasion of their new exhibition at Pace Gallery Los Angeles.
Two Poems by Rickey Laurentiis
Rickey Laurentiis dissects identity and gender in two poems from LARB Quarterly no. 46: “Alien.”
A Spectacle and Nothing Strange
Jacquelyn Ardam considers Francesca Wade’s “Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife.”
Nico Amador’s “Adams”
Nico Amador traces abandoned lineages, in a poem from LARB Quarterly no. 46: “Alien.”
Good Night and Good Luck
Justin St. Clair reviews Thomas Pynchon’s new novel “Shadow Ticket.”
From aracelis girmay’s “The Dog”
In a poem from LARB Quarterly no. 46: “Alien,” aracelis girmay encounters the self as a wild animal.
Everything You Think Is Physical
Julien Crockett discusses cognition and metaphors with George Lakoff and Srini Narayanan, authors of “The Neural Mind: How Brains Think,” in a new installment of the series The Rules We Live By.
Timothy Donnelly’s “To the Alien”
Timothy Donnelly imagines the daunting task of encapsulating humanity’s woes, in a poem from LARB Quarterly no. 46: “Alien.”
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