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Hal’s Ready for His Close-up: An Excerpt from “But What I Really Want to Do Is Direct”
LARB presents an excerpt from Ken Kwapis’s “But What I Really Want to Do Is Direct: Lessons from a Life Behind the Camera.”
Ken KwapisOct 5, 2020
- Film
- Memoir & Essay
Remapping White Childhood: On Fresno Redlining
Nathan Hensley on the machinery of white unknowing.
Nathan K. HensleyOct 5, 2020
- History
- Politics
Another Look Event: A Discussion of Henry James’s The Aspern Papers
How much privacy are even the famous entitled to?
Oct 5, 2020
An Obscure Road to Hollywood
A republication of Philippe Garnier’s 1996 book on screenwriters in 1930s Hollywood.
Woody HautOct 4, 2020
Between Irritation and Oyster: On Bob Blaisdell’s “Creating Anna Karenina”
Janet Fitch is enlightened by Bob Blaisdell’s biographical study of Tolstoy, “Creating Anna Karenina.”
Oct 4, 2020
- Biography & Autobiography
- Literary Criticism
Life and Death in the Rage of Trump
Stephen Rohde reviews “Rage,” Bob Woodward’s look into the Trump White House.
Stephen RohdeOct 4, 2020
- Law
- Politics
The Circuitous Politics of Cool: An Interview with Andrew Martin
Sarah Cozort talks with Andrew Martin about his latest collection of short stories, "Cool for America."
Sarah CozortOct 4, 2020
- Fiction
For Marvin Bell
Friends, colleagues, and admirers celebrate Marvin Bell in his 84th year.
Alan Soldofsky, Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, D.C. Gonzales-Prieto, David Hamilton, Juan Felipe Herrera, Lia Purpura, Matthew Lippman, Michael Morse, Tess GallagherOct 3, 2020
- Poetry
I’d Rather Be a Witch Than a Warrior
The ending of “Mulan” reassures us that she goes on to become a “legend”; yet, are not such honorifics precisely society’s reward for one’s compliance?
Anne Anlin ChengOct 3, 2020
- Film
- Gender & Sexuality
Threshold of Life: The Death of Nadira Kadirova
On global citizenship and the fate of the Istanbul Convention on violence against women.
Helen MackreathOct 3, 2020
Bukvar
Bryan KaretnykOct 3, 2020
Our Blue Future: A Conversation with Steve Mentz
Steve Mentz discusses his book “Oceans,” the emergence of the “blue humanities,” and the lessons to be gleaned from the sea.
Nathen R. StrohmeyerOct 3, 2020
- Science & Technology
The Only Reader is a Re-Reader: Talking to Vivian Gornick
Talking to legendary critic and writer, Vivian Gornick
LARB Radio HourOct 2, 2020
What We Talk About When We Talk About Magical Realism
Fernando Sdrigotti seeks to break Latin American writers free from the magical realism pigeonhole.
Fernando SdrigottiOct 2, 2020
The Great Anti-Left Show
Right-wing media defines itself by a caricature of what they’re against.
Anthony NadlerOct 2, 2020
- Cultural Studies
- Politics
Banned Books Week 2020: Reckless Reader Recommendations
Oct 2, 2020