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Mean Mommies: Care in Contemporary Queer Literature
In an essay from the LARB Quarterly issue no. 43, “Fixation,” Jenny Fran Davis considers the portrayal of care in contemporary queer literature.
Archive
A World Literature Begins to Take Shape
Mitchell Abidor reviews Edwin Frank’s “Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel.”
Under Large Candelabra
Charlie Taylor reviews “Hotel Lux: An Intimate History of Communism’s Forgotten Radicals” by Maurice J. Casey.
These Golden Years Fly By
Grooving to the Lemon Twigs at the Belasco, A. J. Urquidi finds hope for the future in weaponizing the past.
Play and the Engine of Creation
Julien Crockett interviews Kelly Clancy about gamification, simulations, and her new book “Playing with Reality: How Games Have Shaped Our World.”
Rejecting the Siege Mentality in Higher Education
Stacy Hartman and Heather Hewett examine how the humanities are being reimagined in departments and programs across higher education today.
Tales Wagging Translators
Bruce Krajewski reviews Damion Searls’s “The Philosophy of Translation.”
Back to the New Wave Future
Rob Latham reviews Harlan Ellison’s anthology “The Last Dangerous Visions” and the 60th anniversary issue of Michael Moorcock’s “New Worlds” magazine.
Saints and Seekers and Stories
At Bruce Wagner’s Echo Park book launch, he discusses the “Joker” sequel and attention-starved cave-dwelling monks, as Brittany Menjivar reports.
Edwin Frank’s “Stranger than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth Century Novel”
Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher are joined by the editorial director of the New York Review of Books and the founder of the NYRB classic series, Edwin Frank, to discuss his first work of nonfiction.
A Show About People Like Them
Olivia Stowell considers Danzy Senna’s new novel “Colored Television.”
The Invention of Tolerance
Jeffrey Collins reviews Jed W. Atkins’s “The Christian Origins of Tolerance.”
Itineraries of Affect
Erdağ Göknar reviews Orhan Pamuk’s “Memories of Distant Mountains: Illustrated Notebooks, 2009–2022.”
A Thunderous Quiet: The Life and Films of Billy Woodberry
Giovanni Vimercati profiles the L.A. Rebellion filmmaker on the occasion of his latest film, the documentary “Mário.”
On Melons and Melancholy
Ben Wurgaft demonstrates how Steven Shapin’s “Eating and Being” illuminates the intellectual and cultural dynamics of “dietetics”—the relationship between diet, health, and identity—like no prior work on the subject.
Teen Life Is a Horror Show
Molly D. Boyd considers Nick Cutter’s new horror novel “The Queen.”
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