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Jazz Not Math: On Hélène Landemore’s “Open Democracy” and Chiara Cordelli’s “The Privatized State”
Christopher Kutz evaluates "Open Democracy" by Hélène Landemore and "The Privatized State" by Chiara Cordelli.
Christopher KutzSep 15, 2021
- Politics
Searching for What’s Walled Off: On Naomi Hirahara’s “Clark and Division”
Désirée Zamorano reviews Naomi Hirahara’s “Clark and Division,” a novel set in a community of Japanese Americans recently released from an internment camp.
Désirée ZamoranoSep 15, 2021
- Noir
How to Analyze a Poem
Dana Gioia unpacks William Butler Yeats’s “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” as an example of how to analyze poems.
Sep 15, 2021
Searching for Justice in the Fallout: A Conversation with Julia Dahl
Daneet Steffens talks with Julia Dahl about the inspiration behind “The Missing Hours,” her latest novel.
Daneet SteffensSep 15, 2021
- Noir
Rage and Rapture: On Translating Mohamed Leftah’s “Captain Ni’mat’s Last Battle”
Lara Vergnaud reflects on translating “Captain Ni’mat’s Last Battle,” Mohamed Leftah’s posthumous 2011 novel.
Lara VergnaudSep 14, 2021
- Fiction
The Comedy Divine
Reimaging Dante’s great poem 700 years after the poet’s death.
Brad EvansSep 14, 2021
- Religion
Another Look at India’s Books: Sarabjeet Garcha’s “Lullaby of the Ever-Returning”
In this column, Saikat Majumdar discusses books from India that haven’t received due attention.
Saikat MajumdarSep 14, 2021
A Call to Redeem Justice
Jarrett Adams’s “Redeeming Justice” shines a light on the inequities rife in our criminal justice system.
Gil GarcettiSep 14, 2021
- Law
The Water Vanishes: Alexandra Kleeman on Something New Under the Sun
Dashiel Carrera talks with Alexandra Kleeman about the subtleties and peril of the Los Angeles landscape and her recent "Something New Under the Sun."
Dashiel CarreraSep 14, 2021
Wellspring
The classic story of the child down the well played out in Southern California at the dawn of television.
Jeffrey BurbankSep 13, 2021
- History
The Computer Says … What?
Reviewing “Making AI Intelligible,” Paul Dicken concludes it might be easier “to build a human that can talk to a computer, rather than the other way around.”
Paul DickenSep 13, 2021
- Science & Technology
Bachelor Nation and the Ancient History of Gamifying Romance
LARB presents the second entry in “Pasts Imperfect,” a column that explores the impact of ancient pasts on the present.
Stephanie WongSep 13, 2021
- Pasts Imperfect
Departmental Drama: A Conversation on “The Chair”
Annie Julia Wyman, Merve Emre, Sarah ChihayaSep 13, 2021
- Virtual Events
Caught Out: On Alexei Remizov’s “Sisters of the Cross” and “The Little Devil and Other Stories”
Fiona Bell is both captivated and disturbed by the narratives of violence in “Sisters of the Cross” and “The Little Devil and Other Stories” by Alexei Remizov.
Fiona BellSep 13, 2021
- Fiction
The Future Is Divergent: On “Literary Afrofuturism in the Twenty-First Century”
“Literary Afrofuturism in the Twenty-First Century” stands firm in the messiness of it all, proclaiming that said messiness as, in fact, a part of its making.
Suyi Davies OkungbowaSep 12, 2021
- SF
Jesse Jackson’s “Suburban Ecologies”: Irvine, Refracted
For Catherine Liu, Jesse Jackson’s exhibit “Suburban Ecologies” affords a provocative and unsettling reading of Irvine.
Catherine LiuSep 12, 2021
- Art & Architecture