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Not by the Gun Alone: Biographies of Kim Jong Un and the Puzzling Power of North Korean Leaders
Andre Schmid looks at two recent books that try to unravel Kim Jong Un.
Archive
The WPA Guides as a Literary School
An engaging history of the nation’s most unlikely travel series.
The Russian-Jewish-American Triangle of Maxim D. Shrayer
India’s Lockdown of the Mind
Anandi Mishra reviews Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee's essay collection about COVID-19 in India, "The Town Slowly Empties."
Stroll through the Real Cities of Korea from Anywhere in the World with YouTube’s Seoul Walker
For this week's Korea Blog, Colin Marshall inspects the digital flâneur YouTube channel, Seoul Walker.
Shadows Walking: With Wallace Stevens in New Haven
THIS PIECE APPEARS IN THE TRENDING ISSUE OF THE LARB QUARTERLY JOURNAL, NO. 30.
Memories of the Missing: On Willa C. Richards’s “The Comfort of Monsters”
Jung Yun reviews Willa C. Richards’s “The Comfort of Monsters,” an “artful examination of the relationships between sex, power, violence, and identity.”
Remembering Peter Nicholls
Looking back at the career of the environmentally-minded Aotearoa New Zealand sculptor.
Ai Weiwei’s “Trace”: A Graphic Homage to Prisoners of Conscience
Davarian L. Baldwin’s “In The Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities”
Kate Wolf and Eric Newman speak with Davarian L. Baldwin, whose newest book is “In The Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities.”
“America Is a Myth”: A Conversation with Natalie Diaz
Natasha Hakimi Zapata interviews Natalie Diaz about “Postcolonial Love Poem.”
A Trampoline
On a writing getaway, Rebecca Kuder narrates an unexpected encounter.
“Was It a Betrayal?”: On Kate Zambreno’s “To Write As If Already Dead”
Jenny Wu traverses Kate Zambreno’s newest book, “To Write As If Already Dead.”
Gaps and Asterisks
THIS PIECE APPEARS IN THE TRENDING ISSUE OF THE LARB QUARTERLY JOURNAL, NO. 30.
What I Learned When My Body Started Talking to Me
Tara Mandarano and her body team up against a sexist and traumatizing medical industry in this personal essay.
Living in a Changed Climate: A Conversation with Tyler J. Kelley
Stephanie Siu talks with Tyler J. Kelley about his new book, "Holding Back the River: The Struggle Against Nature on America’s Waterways."
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