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Creating Space for Immigration and Race: A Conversation with Jennifer De Leon
Sara Campos talks to Jennifer De Leon about her two recent books, "White Space" and "Don’t Ask Me Where I’m From."
Archive
Entangled in Family: On Miljenko Jergović’s “Kin” and Semezdin Mehmedinović’s “My Heart”
Two newly translated novels by Bosnian authors explore the intersections of family life and national identity.
History Is Happening: On Edmund de Waal’s “Letters to Camondo”
An epistolary biography of a midcentury French businessman and patron of the arts.
Behind Closed Doors: America’s Couple Therapy Entertainment Complex
Every generation gets the iconic couples therapist it deserves.
Be Skeptical of Thought Leaders
Evan Selinger picks apart Susan Liautaud’s “cheerful boosterism.”
The Style of Our Moment: A Conversation with William Logan
Piotr Florczyk asks poet and critic William Logan about his latest book, “Broken Ground: Poetry and the Demon of History.”
These Swift Couriers: Postal Democracy and American Literature
On the promises and perils of postal democracy, from Walt Whitman to Louis DeJoy.
How an Indian Religious Minority Shaped Modern Iran
Nile Green reviews Afshin Marashi's "Exile and the Nation: The Parsi Community of India and the Making of Modern Iran."
The City Speaks: Recent New York and Los Angeles Poetry
When Pop History Bombs: A Response to Malcolm Gladwell’s Love Letter to American Air Power
A grossly simplified view of the United States bombing campaign over Japan in World War II favors dramatic personalities over the reality.
The Accidental True Crime Writer
How a chance event sent me into a dark world.
Gangsters of the San Fernando Valley
A contractor’s hit job goes way off the rails in Chip Jacobs’s new true crime book, “The Darkest Glare.”
Spotlight on Translation: June Edition
In this spotlight you’ll find reviews of prose and poetry translated from Japanese, Italian, and Russian, interviews and essays, poems from Palestine, and much more.
LARB’s Best: TV
It’s indisputable that television criticism has risen to a place in the cultural landscape that it certainly did not occupy before.
The Body’s Story: On Frida Kahlo
LARB presents an excerpt from Emily Rapp Black’s “Frida Kahlo and My Left Leg,” out next week from Notting Hill Editions.
Joan Silber’s “Secrets of Happiness”
Author Joan Silber joins Kate Wolf and Eric Newman to discuss her new novel, Secrets of Happiness.
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