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Performing Is Learning: A Teacher’s Memoir
Poet David Mason reflects on a lifetime of teaching literature as performance.
David MasonMay 30, 2022
- Poetry
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Zabe Bent calls out white people’s languid social commitments in the face of police killings of Black people.
Zabe BentMay 29, 2022
- Memoir & Essay
Out of the War Zone: A Conversation Between Paul Watson and Dan O’Brien
Dan O’Brien talks with Paul Watson, a prize-winning war reporter, about Afghanistan, Ukraine, and why most journalism is bullshit.
Dan O’Brien, Paul WatsonMay 29, 2022
- Politics
What Is Space Opera in the 2020s?
Grant Wythoff surveys recent books by Tade Thompson, Becky Chambers, and Arkady Martine that could be called space operas.
Grant WythoffMay 28, 2022
- SF
A Big Tech Breakup?: On Ro Khanna’s “Dignity in a Digital Age: Making Tech Work for All of Us”
Coining such a deficient framework as “patriotic capitalism,” Ro Khanna exemplifies the limits of centrism.
Karthik PurushothamanMay 28, 2022
- Politics
Weird and Pleasant: On Nell Zink’s “Avalon”
In Nell Zink’s “Avalon,” Huda Awan finds renewed hope for romance.
Huda AwanMay 28, 2022
- Fiction
New Myths for the Era of Displacement: On Fábio Zuker’s “The Life and Death of a Minke Whale in the Amazon: Dispatches from the Brazilian Rainforest”
Eiren Caffall explores Fábio Zuker’s writing about ecological collapse and resistance.
Eiren CaffallMay 27, 2022
- Memoir & Essay
Shelly Oria’s “I Know What’s Best for You: Stories on Reproductive Freedom”
Shelly Oria returns to speak with Kate Wolf about her latest anthology, "I Know What's Best for You: Stories on Reproductive Freedom."
LARB Radio HourMay 27, 2022
Losing by Not Winning
A sprawling history of the compromises, breakthroughs, and mistakes of the Democratic Party.
Shehryar FazliMay 27, 2022
- Politics
“No Good Comes Out of a Spook Show”: Adaptation, Anxiety, and Trauma in Guillermo del Toro’s “Nightmare Alley”
Dane Reighard considers how del Toro adapted a 1946 noir and, in the process, uncovered its contemporary resonances.
Dane ReighardMay 27, 2022
- Film
Why We Love Disaster Films
Jon Catlin examines critical disaster studies through a series of books, the problematic cornerstone being David Thomson’s “Disaster Mon Amour.”
Jonathon CatlinMay 26, 2022
- Film
“An Awful Order”: On Danielle Blau’s “p e e p”
Rachel Hadas hearkens to “p e e p,” an Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize-winning collection by Danielle Blau.
Rachel HadasMay 26, 2022
“A Stitched Version”: On Silvina López Medin’s “Poem That Never Ends”
Molly Bendall takes on “Poem That Never Ends” by Silvina López Medin.
Molly BendallMay 26, 2022
- Poetry
Getting Fooled Again: Rereading Agatha Christie’s “The Murder of Roger Ackroyd” in the Age of Trump
Christie’s classic whodunit is a brilliant parlor trick of deception and misplaced empathy.
Noah BerlatskyMay 25, 2022
- Noir
Decolonize the Family: A Conversation with Amandine Gay
Grégory Pierrot interviews French filmmaker Amandine Gay about her 2021 documentary on transracial adoption.
Grégory PierrotMay 25, 2022
- Decolonize | Defund | Abolish
Dancing with History: A Conversation with Vanessa Hua
Grace Loh Prasad speaks with Vanessa Hua about her new novel, “Forbidden City.”
Grace Loh PrasadMay 25, 2022
- Fiction