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Learning from the “Vandals”: Histories of Forgetting
Dear fellow historian, archaeologist, heritage specialist, Many of you have been watching the current moment with considerable anxiety.
Yannis HamilakisJun 26, 2020
The Nine Lives of Modernization Theory
A new book about Eastern Europe’s turn to the right gets it so wrong.
Arjun AppaduraiJun 26, 2020
- Around the World
- Politics
That Better America for Everyone: Talking to Representative Ilhan Omar
Representative Ilhan Omar talks about a past that led her to stand up for New Americans and embrace the challenges of American democracy.
Andy FitchJun 26, 2020
Know What You’re Making, and Why: A Conversation with Aziza Barnes
Writer Daniel Lisi talks with playwright Aziza Barnes about Los Angeles’s arts landscape and cultural exchange at the theater.
Daniel LisiJun 25, 2020
- Art & Architecture
To Remember, Read, and Return: A Conversation Between Omar Sakr and George Abraham
Poets Omar Sakr and George Abraham on writing their latest books of poetry and decolonizing literature of the Arab diaspora.
George Abraham, Omar SakrJun 25, 2020
- Poetry
On Messaging
Alexander Stern explores the frictionless ease of communication in the digital age.
Alexander SternJun 25, 2020
“What’s Actually Happening”: Looking for History in Jordan Peele’s “Get Out”
Ryan Coleman reviews “Get Out: The Complete Annotated Screenplay” and offers an intersecting history of Black horror.
Ryan ColemanJun 24, 2020
- Film
The Working Dead: Reviving the Crowd as a Protagonist
Chas Walker compares the expendability of the crowd in horror films to our current pandemic thinking.
Chas WalkerJun 24, 2020
Anti-racism and the Problem of the Soul
Monica HuertaJun 24, 2020
A Means to an End: On Mary Oppen’s “Meaning a Life: An Autobiography”
Dan Friedman finds meaning in “Meaning a Life,” the autobiography of Mary Oppen.
Dan FriedmanJun 24, 2020
- Biography & Autobiography
- Poetry
An Uneven Exercise: On Ottessa Moshfegh’s “Death in Her Hands”
Zack Graham looks at “Death in Her Hands,” the new novel from Ottessa Moshfegh.
Zack GrahamJun 23, 2020
- Fiction
"Visible: Out on Television": an LGBTQ TV Roundtable
A group of TV scholars consider Apple TV+'s new docuseries, "Visible: Out on Television," and the narratives of history and visibility it tells.
Alfred L. Martin Jr., Beck Banks, Hollis Griffin, Julia Himberg, Lauren Herold, Maria San Filippo, Mayra BottaroJun 23, 2020
- Gender & Sexuality
- Television
Cinema’s First Epidemic: From Contagious Twitching to Convulsive Laughter
Maggie Hennefeld explores epidemics in early slapstick: as subject, as context, and as commodity.
Maggie HennefeldJun 23, 2020
On the Line with Percival Everett
Talking to Percival Everett about his new novel, Telephone
LARB Radio HourJun 22, 2020
There Is No Other Place: J. M. Coetzee’s Jesus Trilogy
Nobel laureate J. M. Coetzee’s Jesus trilogy is a stark allegory of dystopian modernity.
Marie Luise KnottJun 22, 2020
Her Sentimental Properties
White women have trafficked in Black women’s milk.
Sarah MesleJun 22, 2020