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Real Life Rock Top 10: February 2021
LARB presents the February 2021 installment of “Real Life Rock Top 10,” a monthly column by cultural critic Greil Marcus.
Greil MarcusFeb 26, 2021
How to Open Our Markets Back Up Again: Talking to Sally Hubbard
"When you take economic and political power and put it in the hands of just a few, how could everybody else not lose out?" asks Sally Hubbard.
Andy FitchFeb 26, 2021
Black Germans and the Politics of Diaspora: On Tiffany Florvil’s “Mobilizing Black Germany”
Samuel Clowes Huneke reviews Tiffany Florvil’s “Mobilizing Black Germany: Afro-German Women and the Making of a Transnational Movement.”
Samuel Clowes HunekeFeb 25, 2021
Subverting the Canon of Patriarchy: Lesya Ukrainka’s Revisionist Mythmaking
Sasha Dovzhyk celebrates the radical feminism of the great Ukrainian poet Lesya Ukrainka on the 150th anniversary of her birth.
Sasha DovzhykFeb 25, 2021
Field Notes and Flying Machines: On Te-Ping Chen’s “Land of Big Numbers”
Anjum Hasan reviews the new short story collection from Te-Ping Chen, “Land of Big Numbers.”
Anjum HasanFeb 25, 2021
- Fiction
Brad Smith on the Role of Digital Technology in Politics
Feb 25, 2021
Submersion: The Sensory-Heightened Fiction of Elvira Navarro
Nathan Scott McNamara explores “Rabbit Island,” the new short story collection by Elvira Navarro and translated by Christina MacSweeney.
Nathan Scott McNamaraFeb 24, 2021
- Around the World
- Fiction
Vulnerable Outsiders: On D. A. Mishani’s “Three”
Alex Genty-Waksberg reviews D. A. Mishani’s “Three,” translated by Jessica Cohen.
Alex Genty-WaksbergFeb 24, 2021
- Around the World
- Noir
Summoned to the Stand: On Erica McAlpine’s “The Poet’s Mistake”
Declan Ryan vets “The Poet’s Mistake” by Erica McAlpine.
Declan RyanFeb 24, 2021
- Literary Criticism
- Poetry
I Knocked on the Window and Waved: An Interview with Suleika Jaouad
Dinah Lenney talks with writer Suleika Jaouad about her new memoir, "Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted."
Dinah LenneyFeb 23, 2021
- Memoir & Essay
Freethinkers Versus the Monsterverse: An Excerpt from “The New Enlightenment”
LARB presents an excerpt from Peter B. Kaufman’s “The New Enlightenment and the Fight to Free Knowledge.”
Peter B. KaufmanFeb 23, 2021
An Empire of Stupidity: On Dubravka Ugrešić’s “The Age of Skin”
A celebrated Croatian cultural critic exposes the thin skin of contemporary democracy.
Nina HerzogFeb 23, 2021
Translation and Hallucination
Ilan StavansFeb 23, 2021
Nostalgia and Delirium in “Qua Cơn Mê”
Frances An analyzes two takes on the same song, “Qua Cơn Mê” (“After the Nighmare”), about the aftermath of the Vietnam War.
Frances AnFeb 23, 2021
The Machine Stops: Science and Its Limits
Henry M. Cowles evaluates "The Knowledge Machine," the new book by Michael Strevens.
Henry M. CowlesFeb 22, 2021
- History
- Science & Technology
Star Vehicle: On Translating Poetry
Polish poet Tomasz Różycki reflects on his craft of translation, in an essay translated by Mira Rosen-thal.
Mira Rosenthal, Tomasz RóżyckiFeb 22, 2021