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Why Don’t We Know Who Bombed Nashville?
Who pulled off the unsolved bombings in Nashville? Jane Marcellus reviews “Dynamite Nashville” by Betsy Phillips, which advances an intriguing possibility.
Archive
Queering the Way
Melissa Saywell explores the influence of science fiction fandom and occultism on the early queer rights movement at the opening of “Sci-Fi, Magick, Queer L.A.” at USC.
Seeing in the Half-Light
Lisa Locascio Nighthawk reviews Rachel Kushner’s divisive new novel, “Creation Lake”—much of the commentary around which feels “personal.”
Why (Re)translation Matters
Paul Reitter discusses the aesthetic and cultural value of “retranslating” classic texts.
The DNA Dreams of the New Eugenics
In the fourth essay of the Legacies of Eugenics series, Patricia Williams explores how “new-genics” projects encode social bias.
Explaining Chinese Food—and China
Vincent Chow reviews Fuchsia Dunlop’s “Invitation to a Banquet” and Thomas David DuBois’s “China in Seven Banquets.”
It Is 9:00 P.M. and You Are Listening to Los Angeles
A. J. Urquidi stops going rub-a-dub and instead shakes his Super Bon Bon for Soul Coughing in Downtown L.A.
You Can’t Take It With You?
Julia Berick reviews “Entitlement,” the fourth novel from Rumaan Alam.
The More You Write, the Less You’ll Know
Gregg LaGambina interviews PJ Harvey about her most recent book, album, and international tour.
A Gospel of Violence
Andrew DeCort reviews Tom Gardner’s “The Abiy Project: God, Power and War in the New Ethiopia.”
There’s No Surviving Without Hope
Nicole Graev Lipson interviews Jerald Walker about his new essay collection, “Magically Black.”
Scored in the Key of Leisure
LARB presents an excerpt from Dorothy’s upcoming reissue of Renee Gladman’s “To After That (TOAF).”
What, Then, Is Natural?
Obi Kaufmann considers the coming of the modern megafire and many misconceptions about California’s land, in an excerpt from “The State of Fire.”
Shaking Up the Scene
Are YOU prepared for “The Big One”? Brittany Menjivar shelters in place at their second issue launch party in Koreatown.
Katherine Bucknell’s “Christopher Isherwood Inside Out”
Eric Newman and Kate Wolf speak with Katherine Bucknell about her new biography of Christopher Isherwood, Christopher Isherwood Inside Out.
A Precarious, Provisional Order
Claire Foster reviews Daniel Saldaña París’s “Planes Flying over a Monster,” newly translated by Christina MacSweeney and Philip K. Zimmerman.
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