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Basic Stuff About Reality
Devin Thomas O’Shea reviews David Roediger’s “An Ordinary White: My Antiracist Education.”
Archive
Hazy Passages
Tom Zoellner speaks with Sameer Pandya, author of “Our Beautiful Boys,” about football, India, teenage hazing, and the tyranny of success.
Working Out the Kinks
Brittany Menjivar interviews Brittany Newell about style, symbolism, and representations of sex work in her second novel, “Soft Core.”
Embrangled Banks
David Toomey delights in Banu Subramaniam’s “Botany of Empire: Plant Worlds and the Scientific Legacies of Colonialism.”
Dissidence and Resistance
Mitchell Abidor reviews Peter Weiss’s novel “The Aesthetics of Resistance, Volume III,” newly translated by Joel Scott.
But Why Would You Want to Self-Transcend Through Mysticism?
Dan Turello considers Vladimir Miskovic and Steven Jay Lynn’s “Dreaming Reality: How Neuroscience and Mysticism Can Unlock the Secrets of Consciousness.”
Can the “E” in E-girl Stand for Ecstatic?
Leah Abrams reviews Sophie Kemp’s debut novel “Paradise Logic.”
Mann Men
Clayton Purdom explores an oeuvre of men in crisis in an essay from the LARB Quarterly, issue no. 44, “Pressure.”
Is the Media Alright?
LARB Radio Hour presents excerpts from the February 2025 live discussion and podcast taping on the current challenges facing the media.
Preparing for the Plunge
David Amsden returns to John Cheever’s “The Swimmer” while cruising Los Angeles’s rentable swimming pools.
It’s All Greek and yet Frighteningly Comprehensible.
Robert Zaretsky and Michael Barnes consider Thucydides’s “History of the Peloponnesian War.”
The Thickness of Being
Jorie Graham and Forrest Gander discuss each other’s recent work.
Eloquent Silence
David E. Cooper reviews Pico Iyer’s “Aflame: Learning from Silence.”
Bruce Robbins’s “Atrocity: A Literary History”
Eric Newman speaks with Bruce Robbins about his latest book, “Atrocity: A Literary History.”
The Victory Picture
Alessandro Camon considers the vicious circle of visible carnage.
Landscapes and Change [VIDEO]
Michael Kurcfeld checks in with multidisciplinary artist Doug Aitken about two recent projects.
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