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“What a Miracle”: On Hanif Abdurraqib’s “A Fortune for Your Disaster”
Conor Bracken considers “A Fortune for Your Disaster” by Hanif Abdurraqib.
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The Father Never Goes Away: A Conversation with M. Randal O’Wain
M. Randal O’Wain discusses his new memoir and his working-class Southern roots.
The Best Kind of Scandal: On Liska Jacobs’s “The Worst Kind of Want”
Swan Huntley reviews Liska Jacobs's new novel, "The Worst Kind of Want."
Everyone Who Blurbs My Books Dies. Long Live Chuck Bowden.
Deanne Stillman recounts her formative literary experiences with Chuck Bowden.
From the Bathtub to the Streets: On Gail Scott’s “Heroine”
Nicole Miller reviews Gail Scott’s “Heroine,” recently republished by Coach House Books.
On Millennial Fluidity; or, a Second Open Love Letter to Nico Tortorella
Jonathan Alexander on Nico Tortorella, gender fluidity, and contemporary culture.
An Ardent Call to Arms: On Harriet A. Washington’s “A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind”
Eisa Nefertari Ulen reviews Harriet A. Washington's new book, "A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind."
To Bruce Chatwin (1940–1989)
Mary Perera remembers the lessons Bruce Chatwin taught her.
Re-Seeing the Present: On Monique Truong’s “The Sweetest Fruits”
Rei Magosaki reviews Monique Truong’s new novel, “The Sweetest Fruits,” about the lives of the women in Lafcadio Hearn’s life.
Tick Tock: The Timeliness of Watchmen
Jorge Cotte takes stock of what HBO's Watchmen is doing, what it thinks it's doing, and what, until last night, we might have thought it was doing, too.
Pointing to the Trap
LARB gender and sexuality editor Eric Newman considers “Females” by Andrea Long Chu.
The Limits of the Bit
Kay Gabriel confronts “Females” by Andrea Long Chu.
Refugee Literature in the Age of the “Global Migrant Crisis”
Jocelyn Frelier looks at the emergent power of refugee storytelling.
An American Boy and His Jamaican Nanny: A Conversation with Ross Kenneth Urken
Aaron Shulman speaks to Ross Kenneth Urken about “Another Mother,” his memoir about life with the Jamaican woman who raised him and her life outside of him.
The Trauma of Pretending: On Adam P. Frankel’s “The Survivors”
A former Obama speechwriter struggles with the trauma of his mother’s mental illness.
Our Bodies, Ourselves: On Saeed Jones’s “How We Fight for Our Lives”
Richard Scott Larson considers “How We Fight for Our Lives” by Saeed Jones.
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