The Myth America Show
Josie Torres Barth reviews Molly A. Schneider’s “Gold Dust on the Air: Television Anthology Drama and Midcentury American Culture.”
Josie Torres Barth reviews Molly A. Schneider’s “Gold Dust on the Air: Television Anthology Drama and Midcentury American Culture.”
Madeline Howard reviews Hannah Regel’s “The Last Sane Woman.”
Madeleine Connors steps into the blockchain to watch the Sparks almost crush the Mystics at Crypto.com Arena.
Kate Wolf speaks with writer and journalist Yasmin Zaher about her debut novel, “The Coin.”
Saree Makdisi writes on the student protests against Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
Allie Rowbottom interviews Cristine Brache about her new collection, “Goodnight Sweet Thing.”
Alexander Billet reviews Dominique Routhier’s “With and Against: The Situationist International in the Age of Automation.”
Jenna N. Hanchey reviews Suyi Davies Okungbowa’s “Lost Ark Dreaming.”
Pallavi Aiyar explores how the youth navigate the precarity of contemporary China in her review of two new books by Alec Ash and Yuan Yang.
Torsa Ghosal discusses Dev Patel’s film “Monkey Man” and the problematic politics of revenge.
LARB presents an excerpt from Saikat Majumdar’s “The Amateur: Self-Making and the Humanities in the Postcolony.”
Dan Hartland reviews Christopher Priest’s “Airside.”
Madeleine Connors can’t believe her Bette Davis eyes at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery’s “Baby Jane” screening.
Michael Rubenstein writes on the 50th anniversary of “Chinatown” and the beginning of the end of petromodernity.
In an excerpt from LARB Quarterly no. 41, “Truth,” Cynthia Cruz seeks truth in melancholia, Hegel, and capitalist civilization’s possible futures.
Cristóbal Riego explores the hybrid nonfiction writings of Chilean author Pedro Lemebel.