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One Step Removed from Ash
Vanessa Holyoak explores memory and loss after the L.A. fires, in an essay from LARB Quarterly no. 46: “Alien.”
Vanessa HolyoakOct 19
I Feel Like a Human Bomb Tick Tick Tick
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore reviews the new edition of David Wojnarowicz’s collection “Memories That Smell Like Gasoline.”
Mattilda Bernstein SycamoreOct 18
- Memoir & Essay
- Gender & Sexuality
We Are the Alien
Forest Lewis ponders Graham St John’s “Strange Attractor: The Hallucinatory Life of Terence McKenna.”
Forest LewisOct 18
- Biography & Autobiography
Grace Byron’s “Herculine”
Medaya Ocher and Eric Newman speak with writer Grace Byron about her debut novel, “Herculine.”
LARB Radio HourOct 17
- LARB Radio Hour
Our Man in Marseille
Morten Høi Jensen reviews Uwe Wittstock’s “Marseille 1940: The Flight of Literature,” translated by Daniel Bowles.
Morten Høi JensenOct 17
- History
Macchiato
A. Cerisse Cohen writes about desire in your twenties, in a short story throwback from LARB Quarterly no. 45: “Submission.”
A. Cerisse CohenOct 17
- LARB Lit
- Fiction
From Domination to Derision
W. Patrick McCray surveys Matthew Wisnioski’s description of the United States’ evolution—and devolution—into a nation obsessed with innovation.
W. Patrick McCrayOct 16
- Science & Technology
- History
Life Finds an Investor
Karoline Huber discusses the phenomenon of “de-extinction” in SF and popular culture.
Karoline HuberOct 15
- SF
Pills Have Legs
Julia Lloyd George interviews Rebecca Kelliher about her new book “Just Pills: The Extraordinary Story of a Revolution in Abortion Care.”
Julia Lloyd GeorgeOct 14
- Science & Technology
- Politics
What Isn’t Intelligence?
Patrick House is inspired by Blaise Agüera y Arcas’s “What Is Intelligence?” to think about what might constitute the difference between artificial and natural intelligence.
Patrick HouseOct 14
- Science & Technology
The Heart of the Matter
John Lysaker connects with Jeffrey L. Kosky’s “From the Heart: A Memoir and a Meditation on a Vital Organ.”
John LysakerOct 13
- Philosophy & Religion
- Memoir & Essay
Memory Dismembered
Kurt Guldentops and Sungshin Kim review Bora Chung’s “Red Sword,” newly translated by Anton Hur.
Kurt Guldentops, Sungshin KimOct 12
- SF
Common Roots
Martin Dolan explores labor, trade, and shared humanity in Craig Thompson’s “Ginseng Roots.”
Martin DolanOct 12
Dogs of the Solar Steppe
Ari Braverman writes about a woman exiled to the countryside, in a short story from LARB Quarterly no. 46: “Alien.”
Ari BravermanOct 11
- LARB Lit
- Fiction
Dogito, Ergo Sum
Isabel Jacobs considers Aaron Schuster’s “How to Research Like a Dog: Kafka’s New Science.”
Isabel JacobsOct 11
- Philosophy & Religion
- Literary Criticism
Chris Kraus’s “The Four Spent the Day Together”
Chris Kraus joins Kate Wolf to talk about her new novel, “The Four Spent the Day Together.”
LARB Radio HourOct 10
- LARB Radio Hour