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Unbecoming Women
Lori Jo Marso reads Annie Ernaux’s latest memoir alongside de Beauvoir.
Lori MarsoJul 1, 2020
- Gender & Sexuality
- Memoir & Essay
The Monthly Digest: July 2020
Jul 1, 2020
Blood Always Rises: On Michael Harris’s “White Poison: A Tale of the Gold Rush”
John Shannon praises “White Poison: A Tale of the Gold Rush” by Michael Harris.
John ShannonJun 30, 2020
- Fiction
What Dickens Would Have Thought About Improv Comedy
Emily Anne Foster relates Middleditch & Schwartz's improv special to the wacky pantheon of Dickens characters.
Emily Anne FosterJun 30, 2020
The Life of Forms in Life: On Adrian Duncan’s “A Sabbatical in Leipzig”
Niamh Campbell reviews “A Sabbatical in Leipzig,” the new novel from Adrian Duncan.
Niamh CampbellJun 30, 2020
- Around the World
- Fiction
Nations of One and “Tokyo Olympiad”
Charles Taylor reviews the restoration and Blu-ray release of the 1965 documentary “Tokyo Olympiad,” centered on the 1964 Olympics.
Charles TaylorJun 29, 2020
- Around the World
- Film
Our “Worldwide Theater of Imitated Desire”: Robert Harrison on Warfare, Biotech, Social Media, and the Mimetic Theory of René Girard
An interview with Entitled Opinions host Robert Harrison
Jun 29, 2020
Linking Old-Age Justice and Racial Justice, Then and Now
Corinne T. Field, Margaret Morganroth GulletteJun 29, 2020
Shadow Acts: On Tavia Nyong’o’s “Afro-Fabulations: The Queer Drama of Black Life” and Stephen Best’s “None Like Us: Blackness, Belonging, Aesthetic Life”
Nicholas T Rinehart looks at two recently published books by Tavia Nyong’o and Stephen Best.
Nicholas T RinehartJun 29, 2020
- Art & Architecture
- Philosophy & Religion
Timeline, Flattening: Everyday Life in a Pandemic
Living through a quotidian catastrophe, one desperate text at a time.
Jill KolongowskiJun 28, 2020
- Nonfiction
The Road Toward Ruin: A Conversation with Neal Pollack
Erika Schickel talks to Neal Pollack about his new memoir “Pothead: My Life as a Marijuana Addict in the Age of Legal Weed.”
Erika SchickelJun 28, 2020
- Memoir & Essay
In Praise of Solitude
Irina Dumitrescu studies "The Art of Solitude," the recently published book by Stephen Batchelor.
Irina DumitrescuJun 28, 2020
- Religion
Teaching Shakespeare Under Quarantine
Can we change the plot arc of the profit-driven, capitalistic university?
Andrea CrowJun 27, 2020
- Education
- Literary Criticism
Bauhaus STEAMpunks and a Crisis-Based Humanities
Justus Nieland looks at two recent books on László Moholy-Nagy and György Kepes.
Justus NielandJun 27, 2020
- Art & Architecture
- History
Changing the Conversation: Laverne Cox and Sam Feder on Trans Representation
Talking to Laverne Cox and Sam Feder about Disclosure
LARB Radio HourJun 27, 2020
“Who Would Read Me, Lower Your Eyes”: Remembering Amparo Dávila
A celebration of one of Mexico’s greatest fantasists, by her English translator.
Matthew GleesonJun 26, 2020