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Julian Barnes’s Anti-Brexit Belle Époque
A novel about a 19th-century French gynecologist tells us about life in the Brexit era.
Martin GelinApr 23, 2020
The Story Is Her Ancestors: On Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida’s “That Hair”
Anita Felicelli reviews “That Hair,” the recently released novel from Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida.
Anita FelicelliApr 23, 2020
- Around the World
- Fiction
On Not Learning from Camus’s The Plague
Cóilín Parsons talks about teaching Camus during our own plague, what we can learn from Camus's "The Plague," and why we haven't learned it yet.
Cóilín ParsonsApr 23, 2020
Marion Stokes and the Power of Guerrilla Archiving
Grace Hadland reviews the documentary on reclusive guerrilla archivist and media critic Marion Stokes, “Recorder.”
Gracie HadlandApr 23, 2020
Teaching American Studies in the Middle East
Suzanne Enzerink on teaching American culture and politics in Lebanon.
Suzanne EnzerinkApr 22, 2020
Home in the Hinterlands: On Robin Hemley’s “Borderline Citizen: Dispatches from the Outskirts of Nationhood”
A reporting trip to topographical curiosities sheds light on what it means to be a world citizen.
Justin Tyler ClarkApr 22, 2020
“Merton of the Movies”; or, Hollywood’s Lucky Number
Charles Musser figures that “Merton of the Movies” by Harry Leon Wilson is “one of the most profound novels ever written about Hollywood.”
Charles MusserApr 22, 2020
- Fiction
Going Global: The Literature That Slavery Makes
Crystal Parikh reviews “Runaway Genres: The Global Afterlives of Slavery,” the new book from Yogita Goyal.
Crystal ParikhApr 21, 2020
- Around the World
- Literary Criticism
Lowering into a Dark Pool: On An Yu’s “Braised Pork”
Piper French enjoys “Braised Pork,” the new novel by An Yu.
Piper FrenchApr 21, 2020
- Around the World
- Fiction
The Last Jewish Libertine: “Uncut Gems” and Jewish Masculinity Onscreen
Oleg Ivanov traces the filmic image of the masculine Jew from Elliott Gould to Adam Sandler.
Oleg IvanovApr 21, 2020
Looking the Wrong Way: A Review of Red Tory: My Corbyn Chemsex Hell by Spitzenprodukte
Ross McElwain reviews Spitzenprodukte's latest novel, set in the inner circles of the UK government around 2015.
Ross McElwainApr 21, 2020
Crime & Punishment & RuPaul’s Drag Race: Talking to Rufi Thorpe, author of The Knockout Queen
Talking to Rufi Thorpe about her new novel
LARB Radio HourApr 21, 2020
A Genealogy of Style: A Conversation with Douglas Glover
A major Canadian author discusses the aesthetic processes that guided his experimental short fiction.
Victoria BestApr 20, 2020
- Fiction
A Set of Vicious Russian Nesting Dolls: On Varlam Shalamov’s “Sketches of the Criminal World: Further Kolyma Stories”
Patrick Kurp reads and rereads “Sketches of the Criminal World,” the second volume of Varlam Shalamov’s Kolyma stories translated by Donald Rayfield.
Patrick KurpApr 20, 2020
- Around the World
- Fiction
De-Centering Arendt: On the First Edition of Hannah Arendt’s Complete Works
A new critical edition of the eminent philosopher’s works speaks to modernity, anxiety, and the isolating effect of politics.
Jana V. SchmidtApr 20, 2020
- Philosophy & Religion
- Politics
Coronavirus and Conservation: Preventing the Next Pandemic
Mark J. PlotkinApr 20, 2020