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Lynne Tillman’s “Thrilled to Death”
Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher speak to Lynne Tillman about her latest book, “Thrilled to Death,” a collection of short stories selected from over four decades of her work.
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Disturbers of the Peace
Jeffrey C. Isaac sees modern American parallels in Benjamin Nathan's book about Soviet dissidents.
The Freeway Novel
Skijler Hutson considers how the Los Angeles freeway system has figured in fiction.
A Chorus of Contradictions
Adedayo Agarau reviews W. J. Lofton’s collection “boy maybe.”
Recovering the Forgotten Past of Black Legal Lives
Ajay K. Mehrotra reviews Dylan C. Penningroth’s “Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights.”
In Its Purest Form
Claire Messud reads “Lolita” on its 70th anniversary, in an essay from the LARB Quarterly, issue no. 44, “Pressure.”
Jesus in the Fun House
Nick Owchar reviews Elaine Pagels’s “Miracles and Wonder: The Historical Mystery of Jesus.”
At the Point of the Sword, Magic
Sarah McEachern reviews Clarice Lispector’s “Covert Joy: Selected Stories.”
The Metaphors Sustain
Anabelle Johnston reviews Mai Ishizawa’s “The Place of Shells,” translated by Polly Barton.
Unparalleled Processing
Michael Knapp reviews Mike Singer’s “Why So Serious? The Untold Story of NBA Champion Nikola Jokic.”
Achmed Abdullah, Swinging Caravan
In this new installment of an ongoing series, LARB founder Tom Lutz reflects on Achmed Abdullah’s significance in the year 1925.
Cartwheeling the Tightrope
Hattie Lindert listens to Playboi Carti’s new album “MUSIC.”
Not an Enlightened Age
James Davison Hunter considers Peter Harrison’s “Some New World: Myths of Supernatural Belief in a Secular Age.”
Jolted out of Our Aesthetic Skins
Simon Wu writes on “Mario Kart” and fiction in Las Vegas in an essay from the LARB Quarterly, issue no. 44, “Pressure.”
The Destructive Character: A Cover
Robert Pogue Harrison offers a recasting of Walter Benjamin’s 1931 essay for our own time.
Pankaj Mishra’s “The World After Gaza: A History”
The writer Pankaj Mishra joins Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher to discuss his new book, “The World After Gaza: A History.”
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