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The Destabilizing Force of Language
Annie Lou Martin reviews Anna Moschovakis’s new novel “An Earthquake Is a Shaking of the Surface of the Earth.”
Archive
Life Is More Than an Engineering Problem
Julien Crockett speaks with Ted Chiang about the search for a perfect language, the state of AI, and the future direction of technology.
The Rules We Live By: Year in Review
Julien Crockett looks back on the first year of the LARB series The Rules We Live By.
Science Fiction, Fantasy, and the End of Earnestness
Siobhan Maria Carroll reviews The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2024, edited by Hugh Howey.
The L.A. Fires
In this week’s episode, we are talking about the wildfires that have ravaged L.A.
What Do We Do With the Violence of Our Generation?
Mikaela Dery talks with Julia Kornberg about her new novel “Berlin Atomized.”
A Woman in the Captain’s Chair, Trump in the White House
Thirty years after its premiere, David K. Seitz revisits “Star Trek: Voyager” and its groundbreaking first woman captain.
Helen, Writer of Her Own Myth
Nic Cavell reviews Maria Zoccola’s “Helen of Troy, 1993.”
Nettie in Pantherland
Mary F. Corey reviews Fabienne Josaphat’s new novel “Kingdom of No Tomorrow.”
Respecting the Waters
Jeremy Murray reviews three books on how the United States’ failure to ratify UNCLOS threatens global maritime order.
The Lost Utopia
Zach Gibson revisits cult novelist Marguerite Young’s 1945 study “Angel in the Forest: A Fairy Tale of Two Utopias.”
Jacking In to Cyberpunk
Stina Attebery and Joshua Pearson explore the “Cyberpunk: Envisioning Possible Futures Through Cinema” exhibition at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.
A Toxic Embrace
Aimee Hinds Scott reviews Robert Eggers’s remake of “Nosferatu.”
On the Los Angeles Fires
A note from LARB Editor in Chief
The Éowyn Mystique
Gerry Canavan reviews Kenji Kamiyama’s animated film “The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim.”
Yelling “Fire” on a Crowded Knoll
Tom Zoellner considers a new history of the Kent State shootings by Brian VanDeMark.
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