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Into the Bottomless Pit
Cory Oldweiler reviews Ellen Elias-Bursać’s new translation of Croatian author Damir Karakaš’s “Celebration.”
Archive
Out of the Closet, over the Hedge
Give Brandon Sward a home where butch lesbians roam, where a beard and top surgery display—a.k.a. the Tom of Finland House in Echo Park.
Myths Die Hard
Parker Hatley reviews Gerald Martin’s updated translation of the Guatemalan novel “Men of Maize” by Miguel Ángel Asturias.
Give a Middle Way a Chance
Eamon McGrath reviews Ralph Hubbell’s new translation of Oğuz Atay’s story collection, “Waiting for the Fear.”
Life Buoys and Skin Tags
Robert Kiely reviews Timothy Thornton’s “Candles and Water.”
Coercion
In an excerpt from “By the Fire We Carry,” Rebecca Nagle explores the concept of “allotment”—and its repercussions.
When Art Evolves, We Evolve
Brendan Riley reviews Cisco Bradley’s “The Williamsburg Avant-Garde: Experimental Music and Sound on the Brooklyn Waterfront.”
Danzy Senna’s “Colored Television”
Kate Wolf talks to Danzy Senna about her latest novel, “Colored Television.”
Gathering Intelligence: Chelsea Manning, the War on Terror, and the Trans Internet
Charlie Markbreiter analyzes Chelsea Manning as era-defining symbol, internet darling, and enemy of the state, in an essay from the LARB Quarterly issue no. 42, “Gossip.”
I … Am Herman Melville!
Sam Weller details the tempestuous collaboration of Ray Bradbury and John Huston on the production of the 1956 movie “Moby Dick.”
Keeping an Opa Mind
A. J. Urquidi o-lives his best life on Labor Day weekend with the Greeks and geeks in Long Beach.
Bird by Bird, Brick by Brick
Meredith Maran interviews Danzy Senna about her new novel “Colored Television.”
Security Theater
Adam Straus reviews Richard Beck’s “Homeland: The War on Terror in American Life.”
A Reluctant Übermensch
D. Harlan Wilson reviews Keanu Reeves and China Miéville’s “The Book of Elsewhere.”
New Languages, New Music
Rosanna Young Oh reviews Jimin Seo’s "OSSIA."
For the God of Love, for the Love of Florida
As Florida enters peak hurricane season, Cherith King reflects on Lauren Groff’s 2018 depiction of her home state and its residents.
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