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Real Life Rock Top 10: November 2021
LARB presents the November 2021 installment of “Real Life Rock Top 10,” a monthly column by cultural critic Greil Marcus.
Archive
Foundations of Solidarity: Zeina Maasri Answers
Zeina Maasri speaks with Helen Mackreath about visual ephemera of resistance, postcolonial sites of dissensus, and erasures within the decolonizing moment.
On Photographing at Memorials
Spencer Cohen thinks about the ramifications of photographing aesthetic memorials.
Transfigurations of the Everyday: On Mario Levrero’s “The Luminous Novel”
The late Uruguayan author’s masterpiece is a triumph of procrastination.
Living the Repercussions: A Conversation with Doireann Ní Ghríofa
The celebrated Irish poet discusses her new collection, “To Star the Dark.”
Fear and Loathing: Urban Legends and Legacies of Power in “Fear Street”
Claudia McCarron takes a trip down “Fear Street.”
Are You Listening?
Sophia Stewart on Stephen Sondheim, Georges Seurat, Sam Francis, and the recovered power of the muse.
Single Girls Forever: How TV Envisions Friendship Between Women
Kelly Coyne asks why TV series from Laverne and Shirley to Girls5Eva need to represent adult female friendship through girlhood
In a Lonely Place: On Gaito Gazdanov’s “An Evening with Claire”
Phoebe Roberts plumbs the profound loneliness of “An Evening with Claire” by Gaito Gazdanov, translated from the Russian by Bryan Karetnyk.
Margins of History: On Shay Hazkani’s “Dear Palestine: A Social History of the 1948 War”
David N. Myers finds that “Dear Palestine: A Social History of the 1948 War” by Shay Hazkani upends received wisdom.
The Question Is My Breath: On Honorée Fanonne Jeffers’s “The Love Songs of W. E. B. du Bois”
Jeffers’s debut novel is a sweeping American epic of family secrets and generational legacies.
Hard Line Politics: On the Myth of Free Verse
Austin Allen frees formal verse from its unjust political pigeonhole.
Schadenfreude Without Shade
Josh Emmons tries to name an embarrassing feeling about art: the sad, amused, "not-schadenfreude" when excellent art is ignored.
Having a Job Sucks: Talking Sex, Labor, and Pre-Code Cinema with Amalia Ulman
Eileen G’Sell sits down with actress-filmmaker Amalia Ulman about her film, “El Planeta.”
An Elusive Wish: A Conversation with Dennis Cooper
Daniel Spielberger speaks with Dennis Cooper about his new novel, “I Wished,” and the legacy of George Miles.
What We Do to Define Ourselves: A Conversation with Zaka Toto
A Martinican scholar on the struggle for decolonization and the importance of knowing one’s history.
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