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Breathing New Life into Ancient Stories
Scott Lankford reviews Greg Sarris’s new collection of folktales.
Scott LankfordOct 16, 2017
- Fiction
- Young Adult & Children’s Literature
I Was Asking for It: Sexism, Sexual Harassment, and Ageism in Show Business
Annabelle Gurwitch on her experiences with sexism, sexual harassment, and ageism in show business.
Annabelle GurwitchOct 16, 2017
Art Inside: Facilitator Training
Annie Buckley writes about facilitator training for "Art Inside."
Annie BuckleyOct 16, 2017
LARB Radio Hour: Karen Tei Yamashita's "Letters to Memory"; Plus "Sylvia" by Leonard Michaels
Karen Tei Yamashita, one of the most celebrated American novelists of her generation, turns historian/archeologist with "Letters to Memory," an investigation into the lived experience of the World War Two Japanese Internment Camps.
LARB Radio HourOct 15, 2017
“Still No Master Plan”: The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu’s “2023: A Trilogy”
Ron Hogan on The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu’s long-awaited, heavily collaged novel “2023: A Trilogy.”
Ron HoganOct 15, 2017
- Music
- SF
“A Beautiful Space That Slips Away”: Philippe Soupault and the French Avant-Garde
A review of French Surrealist Philippe Soupault’s memoirs.
Paul MaziarOct 15, 2017
- Memoir & Essay
Mister Kurt, He Posthumous: Vonnegut’s “Complete Stories”
Geoff Nicholson on the collected short stories of Kurt Vonnegut.
Geoff NicholsonOct 15, 2017
- Fiction
Where Modern Korean Drama Began: the Heroism, Villainy, and Idealism of Yi Kwang Su's The Soil
Charles Montgomery on where modern Korean drama began: the heroism, villainy, and idealism of Yi Kwang Su's "The Soil."
Charles MontgomeryOct 15, 2017
The Event is Always Political
James Rushing Daniel argues that the call to not "politicize" tragedies ignores the fact that these types of events are always political.
James Rushing DanielOct 15, 2017
Cogs of War: “Lazarus” and the Limits of Dystopia
Evan McGarvey reviews the fifth volume of Greg Rucka and Michael Lark's "Lazarus."
Evan McGarveyOct 14, 2017
- Comics
Golden Girls Forever: The Enduring Legacy of TV’s Favorite Golden Ladies
Kitty Lindsay talks to Jim Colucci about his book, "Golden Girls Forever: An Unauthorized Look Behind the Lanai."
Kitty LindsayOct 14, 2017
- Gender & Sexuality
- Television
Black Threads in the Civic Quilt
Rahuldeep Gill considers Ta-Nehisi Coates's "We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy."
Rahuldeep Gill, Rahuldeep Singh GillOct 14, 2017
- Politics
Dystopian Surrealism for Our Times: Karin Tidbeck’s “Amatka”
Karin Tidbeck’s surrealist novel engages with the inertia of European democratic socialism and imagines a more liberated posthuman condition.
Irene MorrisonOct 14, 2017
- Around the World
- SF
Meet the LARB China Channel Team, Part 7 — A Q&A With Academic Editor Jeffrey Wasserstrom
LARB's Tom Lutz asks Jeffrey Wasserstrom, academic editor of the new LARB China Channel, about his new project.
Tom LutzOct 14, 2017
Magical Monstrosity and Everyday Oppression Collide in Her Body and Other Parties
Bradley Babendir reviews Carmen Maria Machado's "Her Body and Other Parties."
Bradley BabendirOct 14, 2017
The Men Will Cry
David GordonOct 13, 2017