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Crisis Makes Weird
Harrison Blackman discusses the aesthetics and politics of Greek cinema’s Weird Wave.
Harrison BlackmanOct 10
- Film
- Art & Architecture
Leah Umansky’s “Ars Poetica: The Thing Is …”
Leah Umansky offers a treatise on living among nature, in a poem from LARB Quarterly no. 46: “Alien.”
Leah UmanskyOct 10
- LARB Lit
- Poetry
Mausoleum of Dreams
Oliver Evans reviews Will Sloan’s new biography “Ed Wood: Made in Hollywood USA.”
Oliver EvansOct 9
- Film
- Biography & Autobiography
Double Vision [VIDEO]
Michael Kurcfeld interviews Elmgreen & Dragset on the occasion of their new exhibition at Pace Gallery Los Angeles.
Michael KurcfeldOct 9
- Art & Architecture
Two Poems by Rickey Laurentiis
Rickey Laurentiis dissects identity and gender in two poems from LARB Quarterly no. 46: “Alien.”
Rickey LaurentiisOct 9
- LARB Lit
- Poetry
A Spectacle and Nothing Strange
Jacquelyn Ardam considers Francesca Wade’s “Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife.”
Jacquelyn ArdamOct 8
- Biography & Autobiography
- Literary Criticism
Nico Amador’s “Adams”
Nico Amador traces abandoned lineages, in a poem from LARB Quarterly no. 46: “Alien.”
Nico AmadorOct 8
- LARB Lit
- Poetry
Good Night and Good Luck
Justin St. Clair reviews Thomas Pynchon’s new novel “Shadow Ticket.”
Justin St. ClairOct 7
- Fiction
- Noir
From aracelis girmay’s “The Dog”
In a poem from LARB Quarterly no. 46: “Alien,” aracelis girmay encounters the self as a wild animal.
aracelis girmayOct 7
- LARB Lit
- Poetry
Everything You Think Is Physical
Julien Crockett discusses cognition and metaphors with George Lakoff and Srini Narayanan, authors of “The Neural Mind: How Brains Think,” in a new installment of the series The Rules We Live By.
Julien CrockettOct 6
- Science & Technology
Timothy Donnelly’s “To the Alien”
Timothy Donnelly imagines the daunting task of encapsulating humanity’s woes, in a poem from LARB Quarterly no. 46: “Alien.”
Timothy DonnellyOct 6
- LARB Lit
- Poetry
Fissure from Within
Alex Tan speaks with Egyptian author Iman Mersal about her new book “Motherhood and Its Ghosts.”
Alex TanOct 5
- Memoir & Essay
- Gender & Sexuality
Jeremy Ra’s “Janis Carter Lives in Gambia for Years to Rehabilitate Lucy the Chimp Back into the Wild”
Jeremy Ra inhabits the conflicted mind of chimpanzee caretaker Janis Carter in a poem from LARB Quarterly no. 46: “Alien.”
Jeremy RaOct 5
- LARB Lit
- Poetry
Unsettled Enough
Nitish Pahwa unravels the legal and familial complexities of statelessness in an essay from LARB Quarterly no. 46: “Alien.”
Nitish PahwaOct 4
The Deep Engine of Witness
Ryan McIlvain finds the truth worth telling in Rickey Laurentiis’s “Death of the First Idea” and Geoff Bouvier’s “Us from Nothing: A Poetic History.”
Ryan McIlvainOct 4
- Poetry
J. Hoberman’s “Everything is Now: Primal Happenings, Radical Music, Underground Movies, and the 1960s New York Avant-Garde”
Kate Wolf speaks to J. Hoberman about his latest book, “Everything is Now: Primal Happenings, Radical Music, Underground Movies, and the 1960s New York Avant-Garde.”
LARB Radio HourOct 3
- LARB Radio Hour