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Spooking the Censors
Michael O’Donnell reads Charlie English’s “The CIA Book Club: The Secret Mission to Win the Cold War with Forbidden Literature.”
Archive
Preferring the Company of Parrots and Dogs
Nolan Kelly watches two movie adaptations of Sigrid Nunez novels, “The Room Next Door” and “The Friend.”
The Case for Pragmatic Progress
Michela Massimi reflects on Philip Kitcher’s vision for the future in “The Rich and the Poor.”
The Rest Is History
Mary Turfah writes on Gaza and the limits of the war photograph, in an essay from the upcoming issue of LARB Quarterly, no. 46: “Alien.”
There’s Always Another Story to Tell
Annelies Zijderveld inteviews Martín Espada about his new collection of poems, “Jailbreak of Sparrows.”
Ways and Means
Carey Mott reviews Andrea Louise Campbell’s “Taxation and Resentment: Race, Party, and Class in American Tax Attitudes” and Ruth Braunstein’s “My Tax Dollars: The Morality of Taxpaying in America.”
The Gaza Generation
Shaan Sachdev explores Pankaj Mishra’s “The World After Gaza: A History,” moral authority, and a generation of young dissenters.
Talking “Heightened Scrutiny” with Sam Feder and Amy Scholder
Eric Newman speaks with director Sam Feder and producer Amy Scholder about their new documentary “Heightened Scrutiny.”
You’re Not Anyone
Winnie Code considers Andrew DeYoung’s debut feature film “Friendship.”
The Articulated Unknown
Tiff Dressen interviews Aaron Shurin about “Elixir: New and Selected Poems.”
Delicate and Dirty
Ben Arthur revisits a transformative moment in American culture through the lens of J. Hoberman’s “Everything Is Now: The 1960s New York Avant-Garde—Primal Happenings, Underground Movies, Radical Pop.”
The Semiotics of Girlblogging
Tess Pollok interviews Olivia Kan-Sperling about her debut novel, “Little Pink Book.”
Virtual Worlds, Future Minds [VIDEO]
Michael Kurcfeld interviews Lawrence Lek about his Frieze London exhibition “Guanyin: Confessions of a Former Carebot.”
I’m Just Presenting a Clown
Cameron Engwall talks with Erica Peplin about “Work Nights,” her debut novel.
An Active Project of Exclusion
Geertje Bol and Jan Eijking review “Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men,” by Patricia Owens.
The Common Man Is Coming into His Own
Michael Kobre considers the Fantastic Four superhero “The Thing” and Jack Kirby’s relationship to his own Judaism.
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