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  Philosophical Dead Ends

  John Dupré reviews Richard Dawkins’s “The Genetic Book of the Dead” and Sara Imari Walker’s “Life as No One Knows It.”

  John DupréNov 30, 2024

  • Philosophy & Religion

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  The Politics of Pigmentation

  In the sixth essay of the Legacies of Eugenics series, Suman Seth explores the anti-history of the evolution of whiteness.

  Suman SethNov 29, 2024

  • Science & Technology

  • History

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  Slouching Towards Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist

  Madeleine Connors finds Gen Zers serving looks (and tennis balls) at the “Challengers” look-alike contest.

  Madeleine ConnorsNov 29, 2024
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  LARB Radio Hour Favorites of 2024

  Check out the LARB Radio Hour Favorites of 2024. Support the work of LARB writers and staff in the year to come. Donate by December 31 and your gift will be matched up to $100,000.

  LARB StaffNov 29, 2024
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  LARB Staff Favorites of 2024

  Presenting the full roundup of LARB staff’s 2024 selections, just a few of the many pieces we loved this year.

  Nov 29, 2024
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  “Lazarus Man” by Richard Price

  This electrifying novel weaves together the lives of those irrevocably changed by a disaster, in a poignant picture of ever-changing Harlem. Check out our Winter 2025 pick for the LARB Book Club: “Lazarus Man” by Richard Price.

  Nov 28, 2024
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  Mean Mommies: Care in Contemporary Queer Literature

  In an essay from the LARB Quarterly issue no. 43, “Fixation,” Jenny Fran Davis considers the portrayal of care in contemporary queer literature.

  Jenny Fran DavisNov 27, 2024

  • LARB Lit

  • Cultural Studies

  • Gender & Sexuality

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  A World Literature Begins to Take Shape

  Mitchell Abidor reviews Edwin Frank’s “Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel.”

  Mitchell AbidorNov 26, 2024

  • Literary Criticism

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  Under Large Candelabra

  Charlie Taylor reviews “Hotel Lux: An Intimate History of Communism’s Forgotten Radicals” by Maurice J. Casey.

  Charlie TaylorNov 26, 2024

  • History

  • Politics

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  These Golden Years Fly By

  Grooving to the Lemon Twigs at the Belasco, A. J. Urquidi finds hope for the future in weaponizing the past.

  A. J. UrquidiNov 26, 2024
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  Play and the Engine of Creation

  Julien Crockett interviews Kelly Clancy about gamification, simulations, and her new book “Playing with Reality: How Games Have Shaped Our World.”

  Julien CrockettNov 25, 2024

  • Philosophy & Religion

  • Science & Technology

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  Rejecting the Siege Mentality in Higher Education

  Stacy Hartman and Heather Hewett examine how the humanities are being reimagined in departments and programs across higher education today.

  Heather Hewett, Stacy M. HartmanNov 24, 2024

  • Education

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  Tales Wagging Translators

  Bruce Krajewski reviews Damion Searls’s “The Philosophy of Translation.”

  Bruce KrajewskiNov 24, 2024

  • Philosophy & Religion

  • Literary Criticism

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  Back to the New Wave Future

  Rob Latham reviews Harlan Ellison’s anthology “The Last Dangerous Visions” and the 60th anniversary issue of Michael Moorcock’s “New Worlds” magazine.

  Rob LathamNov 23, 2024

  • SF

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  Saints and Seekers and Stories

  At Bruce Wagner’s Echo Park book launch, he discusses the “Joker” sequel and attention-starved cave-dwelling monks, as Brittany Menjivar reports.

  Brittany MenjivarNov 23, 2024
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  Edwin Frank’s “Stranger than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth Century Novel”

  Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher are joined by the editorial director of the New York Review of Books and the founder of the NYRB classic series, Edwin Frank, to discuss his first work of nonfiction.

  LARB Radio HourNov 22, 2024