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Wild in a Good Way
Cameron Engwall interviews Rob Franklin about “Great Black Hope,” his debut novel.
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Uncinematic Visions of War
Evan Hill finds himself mired down in Alex Garland’s “Warfare.”
Teapot Dome Pitch Meeting: Edward Doheny, Albert Fall, and Cecil B. DeMille
In the fifth installment in an ongoing series, LARB founder Tom Lutz reflects on the convergence of politics and cultural power in early Hollywood.
This Has Always Been Possible
Sarah LaBrie talks to Nina St. Pierre about their respective memoirs, “No One Gets to Fall Apart” and “Love Is a Burning Thing.”
To Remain in Contradiction
Ikechúkwú Onyewuenyi attends an exhibition of Bruce Nauman’s early work, at Marian Goodman Gallery in Los Angeles.
Paranoia, Perspicacity, and Afro-Asian Pessimism
Anne Anlin Cheng looks deeper into Ryan Coogler’s new film “Sinners” and its violent exploration of racial oppression.
The Politics of Apoliticism
Kieran Setiya reviews Christoph Schuringa’s “A Social History of Analytic Philosophy.”
The Legend of Bloomsbury
Isabelle Stuart examines Megan Hunter’s new novel, “Days of Light.”
An Unkillable Streak of the Utopian
Sophie Lewis considers Keiran Goddard’s “I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning.”
A Map to Black Paris
Doyle D. Calhoun visits “Black Paris: Artistic Circulations and Anti-Colonial Struggles, 1950–2000” at the Centre Pompidou.
Fetishizing the Right, from McCarthy to Musk
L. Benjamin Rolsky explores Quinn Slobodian’s “Hayek’s Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right.”
Wave to the Camera
Grant Sharples interviews the filmmaker Alex Ross Perry about “Pavements,” his unconventional new feature about the band.
Two Maoisms
Guobin Yang dives into two new books on Mao-era China.
What To Do About Shame?
In this special episode, hosts Kate Wolf, Medaya Ocher, and Eric Newman wrestle with the question: What are we to do about shame?
If We Could Talk to the Animals
Andrew Koenig considers Elisha Cohn’s “Milieu: A Creaturely Theory of the Contemporary Novel.”
Is Restructuring the Answer?
Joel Seligman discusses Stephen H. Legomsky’s radical call for restructuring the American republic.
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