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A Carnal Contact with Reality: On Pasolini’s Novels
On a great director’s neglected novels.
Daniel FelsenthalDec 24, 2017
In Which Lou Norton Takes on a Mega-Church
Rob Latham reviews “City of Saviors” by Rachel Howzell Hall.
Rob LathamDec 24, 2017
- Noir
You Are Without Land, Without Love
Pericles Lewis ventures through Maya Jasanoff's "The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World."
Pericles LewisDec 24, 2017
- Literary Criticism
Yuletide Terror: Talking to Caelum Vatnsdal, Alexandra West, and Derek Johnston
Ian MacAllister McDonald interviews three of the contributors to "Yuletide Terror: Christmas Horror on Film and Television."
Ian MacAllister-McDonaldDec 24, 2017
Why Has Korea Hired Gordon Ramsay to Be Its Big Brother?
Colin Marshall wonders why Gordon Ramsay has become the spokesperson for Korea's most boring beer.
Colin MarshallDec 24, 2017
Learing This Sad Time: On Edward St. Aubyn’s “Dunbar”
It is foolish to ask: is this novel as good as "King Lear?" But it is as foolish to restate the prejudice that Shakespeare is the incomparable great bard.
Daniel SwiftDec 23, 2017
- Fiction
Creating a Comics Canon
Russ Kick’s "The Graphic Canon of Crime and Mystery" is, for now, the most sustained anthology of comic art in the English language.
Paul BuhleDec 23, 2017
- Comics
The Dan Graves Situation
Emma Copley EisenbergDec 23, 2017
- LARB Lit
There's Only One Tonya: Debating Sufjan Stevens's Two Renditions of "Tonya Harding"
Chris Stedman and Nathan Goldman debate the relative merits of the two versions of Sufjan Stevens’s recently released “Tonya Harding."
Nathan GoldmanDec 23, 2017
Why Are There So Many Cute Cats on the Internet? The World is Driven by a Cute-Excellence Syndrome
Thorsten Botz-Bornstein considers why there are so many cute cats on the internet, and how "cute-excellence syndrome" drives our culture.
Thorsten Botz-BornsteinDec 23, 2017
LARB Radio Hour: Ragnaroket Science: Clifford Johnson's Comic Book Explains the Universe
USC Professor of Physics Clifford Johnson discusses his new work of natural philosophy "The Dialogues: Conversations About the Nature of the Universe."
Dec 23, 2017
Let It Go: Niña Weijers’s Debut Novel and Understanding the Universe
Rebecca Waldron on Niña Weijers's novel of self-erasure and self-discovery.
Rebecca WaldronDec 22, 2017
- Around the World
- Fiction
How to Read Star Wars
"Star Wars is sacred to millions, and millions are blind to Star Wars." M. W. Lipschutz on the 13 ways of reading the franchise.
M. W. LipschutzDec 22, 2017
“The Last Jedi”: Saving Star Wars from Itself
By connecting female representation to values that challenge toxic masculinity, "The Last Jedi" supplants the franchise’s hero worship with compassion.
Dan Hassler-ForestDec 22, 2017
- Film
- SF
Associational Vibrancy: Talking to Joel Schlosser
Andy Fitch interviews Joel Schlosser, author of "What Would Socrates Do? Self-Examination, Civic Engagement, and the Politics of Philosophy."
Andy FitchDec 22, 2017
Books of Revelation: Christianity and Miracles in the Life and Work of Denis Johnson
Brian Dille, who was Denis Johnson’s friend, gives his perspective on how Christianity and Alcoholics Anonymous informed the “Jesus’ Son” author’s work.
Brian B. DilleDec 21, 2017
- Fiction
- Religion