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Perfect Momentum
In a preview from LARB Quarterly no. 44, “Pressure,” Dorie Chevlen learns how to crash someone else’s car.
Archive
Premodern Chinese Literature Can Be Trendy Too
Maddalena Poli explores the new series from Oxford University Press, Hsu-Tang Library of Classical Chinese Literature.
From Plague to Palate
B. K. Fischer reviews Maggie Nelson’s “Pathemata, or The Story of My Mouth.”
The Poetry of Chance
Ben Borden and Zoe Koke discuss their relationship with reference and representation, and their two-person exhibition “Palingenesis.”
Modernity’s Slumber Factory
Ian Ellison considers Sebastian P. Klinger’s “Sleep Works: Experiments in Science and Literature, 1899–1929.”
Maggie Nelson’s “Pathemata, Or, The Story of My Mouth”
Maggie Nelson joins Kate Wolf to discuss her new book “Pathemata, Or, The Story of My Mouth.”
Building a Nest
Lauren Markham and Jenny Odell discuss people, books, and places as inspiration; grief and the creative process; and the conscious attention required by climate crisis.
The Isaiah of the Butterflies
In this new installment of an ongoing series, LARB founder Tom Lutz reflects on the “King of the Greenwich Village Bohemians,” Maxwell Bodenheim, and the significance of the year 1925.
Sitting with the Grief
Jenna N. Hanchey explores the recent anthology “Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction,” edited by Eugen Bacon.
Stanisław Lem’s Jewish Paradoxes
Marat Grinberg considers Stanisław Lem as a Jewish writer.
The Dialectic Lurking Behind the Brutality
Ieva Jusionyte digs into Greg Grandin’s “America, América: A New History of the New World.”
Gulf of América
Esther Allen reviews Greg Grandin’s “America, América: A New History of the New World.”
What Bad Art Lacks
Chris Molnar interviews Naomi Falk about her new book, “The Surrender of Man.”
We All Inhabit This Small Planet
Heather Cass White considers David Szalay’s latest novel, “Flesh.”
“We’re All Chinese, Aren’t We?”
Jessie Lau ponders Emily Feng’s “Let Only Red Flowers Bloom: Identity and Belonging in Xi Jinping’s China.”
Painting Money
Gracie Hadland talks to Paul Sietsema about his recent exhibition at Matthew Marks Gallery.
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