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What Can Enlightened Coders Really Do?
Evan Selinger reads Darryl Campbell’s “Fatal Abstraction: Why the Managerial Class Loses Control of Software” with the realities his students face in mind.
Evan SelingerApr 10
- Science & Technology
The Man Who Believed He Could Have Raised Hitler to Be a Nice Person
Åsmund Borgen Gjerde excavates the link between Ole Ivar Lovaas’s Nazi past and his UCLA-based work on “curing” autistic children.
Åsmund Borgen GjerdeApr 10
- Science & Technology
- Biography & Autobiography
The Heir Conditioner
The LARB Quarterly, issue no. 44, “Pressure,” presents an excerpt from Hannah Zeavin’s “Mother Media.”
Hannah ZeavinApr 9
- LARB Lit
- Gender & Sexuality
To the Bottom of the Unknown to Discover the New
Ronjaunee Chatterjee speaks with Nathan Brown about his new translation of Charles Baudelaire’s “The Flowers of Evil.”
Ronjaunee ChatterjeeApr 9
- Poetry
- Literary Criticism
Reservation Politics
Sarah McEachern reviews Jon Hickey’s debut novel “Big Chief.”
Sarah McEachernApr 8
- Fiction
Of Quirks and Quarks
Heather Treseler reviews John Koethe’s new collection “Cemeteries and Galaxies.”
Heather TreselerApr 8
- Poetry
Criticism as Apologetics
Grace Byron interviews Andrea Long Chu about her new book, “Authority.”
Grace ByronApr 7
- Memoir & Essay
The Unsettled Self
Grace Linden reviews Katie Kitamura’s “Audition”
Grace LindenApr 7
- Fiction
Whose Voices Are These?
Leland de la Durantaye considers art, abstraction, and violence in Rachel Cusk’s “Parade.”
Leland de la DurantayeApr 6
- Fiction
Annoy Me to Death
Wade Newhouse considers Camilla Bruce’s new horror novel “At the Bottom of the Garden.”
Wade NewhouseApr 6
- SF
Toward an Aesthetic of Post-Boomer Fiction
Zach Gibson reviews Adam Kelly’s “New Sincerity: American Fiction in the Neoliberal Age.”
Zach GibsonApr 5
- Literary Criticism
Mafalda
The LARB Quarterly presents an excerpt from Quino’s “Mafalda,” translated by Frank Wynne, in issue no. 44, “Pressure.”
Quino, Frank WynneApr 5
- LARB Lit
- Comics
Lynne Tillman’s “Thrilled to Death”
Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher speak to Lynne Tillman about her latest book, “Thrilled to Death,” a collection of short stories selected from over four decades of her work.
LARB Radio HourApr 4
Disturbers of the Peace
Jeffrey C. Isaac sees modern American parallels in Benjamin Nathan's book about Soviet dissidents.
Jeffrey C. IsaacApr 4
- History
- Politics
The Freeway Novel
Skijler Hutson considers how the Los Angeles freeway system has figured in fiction.
Skijler HutsonApr 4
- Fiction
A Chorus of Contradictions
Adedayo Agarau reviews W. J. Lofton’s collection “boy maybe.”
Adedayo AgarauApr 3
- Poetry
- Cultural Studies