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A Haunting in Jamaica
René Johannes Kooiker explores Marlon James’s series “Get Millie Black,” in which detectives chase ghosts as well as criminals.
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The People’s Literary Sport
Souli Boutis reviews Carlos Labbé’s novel “The Murmuration,” translated by Will Vanderhyden.
The Syrup of Wahoo Keeps Splashing Around
Gary Lippman remembers his friend, the late American author Tom Robbins.
Passing in Black-and-White
Akanksha Singh reviews Mayukh Sen’s “Love, Queenie: Merle Oberon, Hollywood’s First South Asian Star.”
The Paisley Underground Redux
Adam Sobsey revisits the early-1980s Los Angeles indie-pop scene.
An Inexhaustible Locomotive: Poems of Dissent and Repose
Alex Mormorunni reviews Bei Dao’s “Sidetracks” and Eliot Weinberger's “The Life of Tu Fu.”
Infinite Influence
Manuel Antonio Córdoba examines the never-ending quest for a Spanish-language David Foster Wallace.
Here, There, Everywhere
Michelle Cohn explores Mati Diop’s recent film “Dahomey.”
The Ghosts of Copacabana
Gisela Salim-Peyer explores the Oscar-nominated chronicle of one family’s encounter with military dictatorship in Brazil.
Is Sex a Hex?
Scott reviews Grady Hendrix’s “Witchcraft for Wayward Girls.”
LARB Radio Hour x Film Comment 2025 Oscars Preview
In this special episode, host Eric Newman joins LARB senior editor Paul Thompson and Film Comment co-editors Devika Girish and Clinton Krute for a look at this year’s Oscar nominees.
Defining “Lynchian”
Abe Beame traces the history of a curious term.
Rembrandt and Literature
Tim Brinkhof ponders the Dutch master’s influence on literature.
Double Vision and Full Dissolution
Alix Christie interviews Andrea Barrett about “Dust and Light: On the Art of Fact in Fiction.”
A Body Is Never Just a Body
Jenessa Abrams considers Shayne Terry’s “Leave: A Postpartum Account.”
The Liquid Music of Language
Charlotte Rogers has some concerns about Julie Sedivy’s “Linguaphile: A Life of Language Love.”
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