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"Not realistic, real": Talking with Rick Gekoski
Erik Martiny talks with Rick Gekoski about his uncompromising character James Darke, and the forces behind his original novel and recent sequel.
Erik MartinyAug 13, 2020
The Complexities of Love: On Betsy Carter’s “Lost Souls at the Neptune Inn”
Loraine Despres finds “Lost Souls at the Neptune Inn,” the new novel by Betsy Carter.
Loraine DespresAug 12, 2020
- Fiction
Suicide Missions
Historian Michael D. Gordin reviews several books in order to tackle the problem of deferred solutions — the fact that we seem rigged to defer suffering.
Michael D. GordinAug 12, 2020
Contact Tracing, Esports, and Surveillance Society
Paul J. D'Ambrosio links the tracing measures being implemented during the pandemic to what might formerly have been considered unwelcome surveillance.
Aug 12, 2020
Talking Tomboys with Melissa Faliveno
Eric and Melissa Faliveno, author of Tomboyland, parse the history of the tomboy and its queer geographic and temporal character.
LARB Radio HourAug 11, 2020
The Asset Economy
An excerpt from “The Asset Economy,” a forthcoming book from Lisa Adkins, Melinda Cooper, and Martijn Konings.
Lisa Adkins, Martijn Konings, Melinda CooperAug 11, 2020
- Economics and Finance
- Politics
Days of the Dead: Frozen Bodies, Real Martyrs, and the Quest for Immortality in the City of Angels
Peter LunenfeldAug 11, 2020
These Discomforting Truths: On Yxta Maya Murray’s “The World Doesn’t Work that Way, but It Could”
J. David Gonzalez reviews Yxta Maya Murray’s new collection of short stories, “The World Doesn’t Work that Way, but It Could.”
J. David GonzalezAug 11, 2020
- Fiction
Refugee Tales: A Conversation with Juan Pablo Villalobos
Paulo Lemos Horta talks to writer Juan Pablo Villalobos about his latest book, "The Other Side."
Paulo Lemos HortaAug 11, 2020
- Nonfiction
- Politics
A Take on Takes on Takes, or the Function of Criticism in the Present Time
Aug 11, 2020
Literature of the Uncomfortable: Joanna Chen in Conversation with Colum McCann
Joanna Chen talks about the interwoven lives of Palestinians and Israelis in the novel "Apeirogon" with its author, Colum McCann.
Joanna ChenAug 11, 2020
Charlottesville Three Years Later: The First Amendment Confronts Hate and Violence
Stephen Rohde and Nadine Strossen consider the way forward for free speech and First Amendment rights in the wake of Charlottesville.
Nadine Strossen, Stephen RohdeAug 10, 2020
- Law
- Politics
Not in This Together
Laila Lalami on what Rousseau has to teach us about the pandemic.
Laila LalamiAug 10, 2020
- Philosophy & Religion
- Politics
Gimme More: On Sianne Ngai’s “Theory of the Gimmick”
Andrew Koenig reviews "Theory of the Gimmick," the new book from Sianne Ngai.
Andrew KoenigAug 10, 2020
- Cultural Studies
- Literary Criticism
Smashing Statues, Building Community
Erin L. Thompson thinks about what it means to record the process of destroying art in Aaron Tugendhaft's "The Idols of ISIS."
Erin L. ThompsonAug 10, 2020
“The Voice of the Muse Is the Voice of the Language”: On Joseph Brodsky’s “Selected Poems, 1968–1996”
Tyler Dunston gets a handle on the uncompromising Joseph Brodsky by means of his “Selected Poems, 1968–1996.”
Tyler DunstonAug 9, 2020
- Around the World
- Poetry