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Sam Quinones’s “The Least of Us”
Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher are joined by Sam Quinones, whose latest book is “The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth.”
LARB Radio HourDec 17, 2021
Biddy Mason in Images: A Monumental Life in Monumental Forms
A pioneer of Los Angeles’s Black community comes to life in a LACMA exhibition.
Arielle Xena AlterwaiteDec 17, 2021
- Art & Architecture
What Did Dallas Learn from Rediscovering a Suppressed Book?
If there’s one subject Dallas will do almost anything to avoid, it’s how the city is drawn along racial lines.
Rob MadoleDec 17, 2021
- History
“Her Smell Spoke Another Language”: On Tice Cin’s “Keeping the House”
In this novel of immigrant life in London, terrors and pleasures loom just out of frame.
Piper FrenchDec 16, 2021
- Fiction
Jane Austen, the Artful Tax Dodger
Janine Barchas inspects the cultural and practical significance of Jane Austen’s humble donkey carriage.
Janine BarchasDec 16, 2021
Semipublic Intellectual Sessions: “On Leaving”
A transcript of the panel discussion “On Leaving” — a conversation in the Semipublic Intellectual Sessions, which took place on October 14.
Andrea Long Chu, Christine Smallwood, K. Austin Collins, Lauren Michele Jackson, Sarah ChihayaDec 16, 2021
- Education
“Only Lovers Live in the Present”: On the Notebooks of Patricia Highsmith
The noir author’s personal notebooks have a claim to be her life’s major work.
Robert MintoDec 16, 2021
- Literary Criticism
Daniel Ziblatt on Resilient Democracies | A Collaboration with the German American Conference at Harvard
Dec 16, 2021
“This Story Is About Community Versus Isolation”: A Conversation with Sam Quinones
The author discusses his new book, “The Least of Us,” about the second wave of the opioid crisis in America.
Travis LupickDec 15, 2021
- Nonfiction
The Afterlife of Christopher Hitchens
Clint Margrave remembers his encounter with Christopher Hitchens on the 10th anniversary of his death.
Clint MargraveDec 15, 2021
Coming Soon — Anthropocene Economics
The numbers that once allowed economists to lord it over the other social sciences have become privatized, monopolized by the few.
Leonard Nakamura, Michael MackenzieDec 15, 2021
- Economics and Finance
Nobody Likes Dolphin Meat, but Times Are Hard
This story makes landfall, is beached, on April 4, 2021, but, really, the story begins earlier still: with the Atlantic Slave Trade and its long afterlives.
Akua BanfulDec 14, 2021
- Around the World
On Kinds of Minds and Kinds of Racism
To understand what kind of racism we face, argues George Makari, we need to understand the type of mind that undergirds it.
George MakariDec 14, 2021
- Science & Technology
Inching Toward His Due: On Two New Translations of Kleist
Dylan Brown considers two new translations of Heinrich von Kleist and the German Romantic writer’s growing reputation in English.
Dylan BrownDec 14, 2021
- Fiction
“Remembering Is an Act of Protest”: A Conversation with Monique Kwachou
On the Anglophone Crisis in Cameroon and the legacies of colonialism.
Grégory PierrotDec 13, 2021
- Decolonize | Defund | Abolish
Through a Computer Screen Darkly: A Conversation with Meghan O’Gieblyn
Meghan O’Gieblyn’s book examines the evolution of the individual in technological narratives.
Ed SimonDec 13, 2021
- Religion