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Junkyard Dragon: The Rolling Stones at SoFi Stadium
Sometimes our critic hates the Rolling Stones so much that she thinks she must secretly love them.
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A Fight for Survival: On Somaiya Daud’s “Court of Lions”
Iman Sultan reviews Somaiya Daud’s “Court of Lions.”
A Philosopher in Hard Times
Samantha Rose Hill traces Hannah Arendt’s intellectual biography.
Beloved Immoralist: One Man’s Love of a Fictional Character
David Mason ponders his father’s attachment to Gulley Jimson, the protagonist of Joyce Cary’s “The Horse’s Mouth.”
Three Questions for Maceo Montoya Regarding His Illustrated Novel, “Preparatory Notes for Future Masterpieces”
Daniel Olivas interviews Maceo Montoya about his newly published illustrated novel, “Preparatory Notes for Future Masterpieces.”
For All Those Hustlers Who Write (Talking About You, Donnell Alexander)
Snow Globe
Maegan Gwaltney explores COVID losses and enduring family ties.
Anna Della Subin’s “Accidental Gods”
Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher talk with Anna Della Subin about her new book, “Accidental Gods: On Men Unwittingly Turned Divine.”
Can We Talk?: On Taylor Dotson’s “The Divide: How Fanatical Certitude Is Destroying Democracy”
Why can’t we get anything done around here? Because the conversation is too small.
Real Life Rock Top 10: December 2021
LARB presents the December 2021 installment of “Real Life Rock Top 10,” a monthly column by cultural critic Greil Marcus.
Mystery Illnesses Writ Large
Modern medicine fails abysmally to account for mass psychogenic illnesses — they’re uncanny and paradigm-altering.
Diasporist Paradox: On Mothers and the Myth of Return
Angela Brussel explores the nature of diaspora and of her and her family’s attempts to return home.
Semipublic Intellectual Sessions: “Redeeming Justice”
A transcript of the panel discussion “Redeeming Justice” — a conversation in the Semipublic Intellectual Sessions, which took place on October 28.
Evocative Accounts of Soon-to-Vanish Sites: Recent — and Not So Recent — Hong Kong Poetry and Prose
Grappling with Hong Kong’s present and future via a bumper crop of fiction and poetry.
A Neuroscience of Strange Gods
Lisa Miller’s book “The Awakened Brain” examines the neuroscience of spirituality.
Why Are We Stuck Here: "Squid Game," Trauma, and Repetition
Hannah Amaris Roh argues that Squid Game's simplicity masks its meta-commentary on the trauma of capitalism
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