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The Noosphere Gazette: On Peter B. Kaufman’s “The New Enlightenment and the Fight to Free Knowledge”
An open-access, verifiable, digital knowledge base would potentially enable a major flowering of the human mind.
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Roleplaying a Communist Cop in the Ruins of Revolution
“Disco Elysium: The Final Cut” is a roleplaying game that turns a murder mystery into a surreal voyage through the history of capitalism and empire.
On Patriotism and Potlucks
Patriotism is a virtue — if you do it right.
Katie Kitamura’s “Intimacies”
Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher are joined by Katie Kitamura to discuss her latest novel, “Intimacies.”
The Need to Talk: On Marguerite Duras’s “The Darkroom”
“The Darkroom” is a critique of aesthetics and politics, and a meditation on the end of the world.
Tiny Pinpoint Glimmers: On Marina Jarre’s “Distant Fathers”
This elliptical memoir is the first English translation of a major modern Italian author.
Real Life Rock Top 10: July 2021
LARB presents the July 2021 installment of “Real Life Rock Top 10,” a monthly column by cultural critic Greil Marcus.
I’d Be the Loser and Murdered: On Joshua Cohen’s “The Netanyahus”
David N. Myers weighs the sins of the real-life family emplotted in “The Netanyahus,” a new comic novel from Joshua Cohen.
Shame, Class and Sexuality in Contemporary France: Édouard Louis' Socio-Political Autofiction
Esmé O'Keeffe synthesizes the themes in Édouard Louis' early works.
“Flipping” the History of Literary Studies
John Guillory ventures through "The Teaching Archive," the new history of literary studies by Rachel Sagner Buurma and Laura Heffernan.
Summer Words
Travis Diehl finds himself "Lost in Summerland," the new essay collection by Barrett Swanson.
In the Presence of Another Mind: A Conversation with Karen Solie
Matt Morton interviews Karen Solie about her new book, “The Caiplie Caves.”
The Future of Global Englishes Is Coming: A Conversation with Rahul Raina
The Indian novelist discusses the three ingredients that make up his work: Delhi, global English, and masala.
The People Are More Than They Seem
Harrison Diskin reviews "The Democratic Sublime" by Jason Frank.
Trump’s Assault on Asylum: An Opportunity to Reflect on US Humanitarian Values
Sara Campos considers “The End of Asylum” by Andrew Schoenholtz, Jaya Ramji-Nogales, and Philip G. Schrag.
The Art of Temporal Resistance
Karla Kelsey inspects the interrelation of ecology and time in Cole Swensen's "Art in Time."
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