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Before There Were Korean TV Dramas, There Was Lee Hyeong-pyo's Under the Sky of Seoul (1961)
Colin Marshall surveys a portrait of an older Seoul in Lee Hyeong-pyo's "Under the Sky of Seoul" (1961).
Colin MarshallAug 29, 2021
The Shape of Premodern Nonbinarity: A Conversation with Leah DeVun
M. Buna speaks with Leah DeVun about their latest work, “The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance.”
M. BunaAug 28, 2021
- Gender & Sexuality
The Last of the Fucked-Up Mohicans: On Gianfranco Calligarich’s “Last Summer in the City”
A minor masterpiece of Italian fiction available now available in English translation.
Max NormanAug 28, 2021
- Fiction
How We Rolled
Jervey TervalonAug 28, 2021
The World Is Our Oyster — and Beyond
Dan Friedman enjoys the tales in “The Best of World SF: Volume 1,” edited by Lavie Tidhar.
Dan FriedmanAug 28, 2021
- SF
Unequal Justice Under the Law
R. Owen Williams reviews Orville Vernon Burton and Armand Derfner's new legal history, "Justice Deferred: Race and the Supreme Court."
R. Owen WilliamsAug 27, 2021
- Law
Rachel Greenwald Smith’s “On Compromise”
Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher are joined by Rachel Greenwald Smith, author of “On Compromise: Art, Politics, and the Fate of an American Ideal.”
LARB Radio HourAug 27, 2021
Damsels Get Even: Noir’s New Feminists
Savy Janssen scopes out two new noir novels with female leads, S. A. Lelchuk’s “One Got Away” and Halley Sutton’s “The Lady Upstairs.”
Savy JanssenAug 27, 2021
- Noir
Real Life Rock Top 10: August 2021
LARB presents the August 2021 installment of “Real Life Rock Top 10,” a monthly column by cultural critic Greil Marcus.
Greil MarcusAug 27, 2021
- Music
Necessary Fictions
An LA’s writer brothers, both physicians in NYC, are hospitalized with COVID-related pneumonia.
Susan BaskinAug 27, 2021
The Human Body as Fever Dream: On Yelena Moskovich’s “A Door Behind a Door”
A surreal and visceral novel about Russian immigrants in 1990s Milwaukee.
Katya BureshAug 27, 2021
- Fiction
To Say Nothing About Our Joy: A Conversation with Chris Campanioni
Davon Loeb talks with Chris Campanioni about writing in the face of trauma without centering it and his recent nonfiction book "A and B and also Nothing."
Davon LoebAug 27, 2021
Let Us Now Praise Famous Californians
Wayne Catan reviews Matthew Specktor's latest book, "Always Crashing in the Same Car: On Art, Crisis, and Los Angeles, California."
Wayne CatanAug 26, 2021
- Memoir & Essay
The Beauty of Imperfection
Irina Dumitrescu appreciates "Kintsugi: The Poetic Mend" by Bonnie Kemske.
Irina DumitrescuAug 26, 2021
- Philosophy & Religion
Corpse Capitalism: On John Troyer’s “Technologies of the Human Corpse”
A curiously optimistic new study of the commercial exploitation of dead bodies.
Deborah StreahleAug 26, 2021
- Cultural Studies
Arpaio’s Downfall
How a blowhard lawman met his match in the organized resistance of the people he persecuted.
Gabino IglesiasAug 25, 2021
- Politics