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Grown-Up Desires
Susan Barr-Toman considers the essays in Andrea Jarrell's "I’m the One Who Got Away."
Susan Barr-TomanOct 4, 2017
- Memoir & Essay
Home Is a Hymn: “Sing, Unburied, Sing” by Jesmyn Ward
Jesmyn Ward’s “Sing, Unburied, Sing” reflects the different ways people live through trauma.
Mike BroidaOct 4, 2017
- Fiction
“Maybe This Book is a Cemetery”: An Interview with Alistair McCartney
Meghan Lamb interviews Alistair McCartney, author of "The Disintegrations."
Meghan LambOct 4, 2017
No Revolution Without the International: An Interview with Dmitry Bykov
Sasha Razor interviews the Russian polymath Dmitry Bykov.
Sasha RazorOct 3, 2017
Hiking with Emerson
Skye C. Cleary interviews professor John Kaag about his recent book, "American Philosophy: A Love Story."
Skye C. ClearyOct 3, 2017
- Memoir & Essay
- Philosophy & Religion
Murder Comes to SCOTUS
LARB Legal Affairs Editor Don Franzen talks to Anthony Franze about his new novel, "The Outsider."
Don FranzenOct 3, 2017
- Law
- Noir
Connections, Collage, and Citation in the Work of Lana Del Rey and Maggie Nelson
Niina Pollari compares the uses of citation and referencing in Lana Del Rey's "Lust for Life" and Maggie Nelson's "Bluets."
Niina PollariOct 3, 2017
African Science Fiction
A comradely incitement to our own peripheralization.
Oct 2, 2017
- Around the World
- SF
Darwinian Sexual Selection and the Politics of Beauty
Ethan Linck reviews Richard O. Prum's "The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin’s Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World — and Us."
Ethan LinckOct 2, 2017
- Gender & Sexuality
- Science & Technology
To Look or Not to Look: Is that the Question?
Sarah SentillesOct 2, 2017
The Little Rock Nine, Ballet, and Racial Justice in Art
Amy M. Wilkinson discusses the Little Rock Nine and the importance of bringing racial diversity to ballet.
Amy M. WilkinsonOct 2, 2017
Will No One Rid Me of This Meddlesome Priest?
Arthur McCaffrey reviews Garry Wills' "Why Priests?"
Arthur McCaffreyOct 2, 2017
Beyond the Good and (Almost) Evil: Nietzsche and Fleur Jaeggy’s “I Am the Brother of XX”
What would we be without the veneer of social convention: petty, destructive, deeply alone?
Jessi Jezewska StevensOct 1, 2017
- Fiction
Gambler-in-Chief: The Declining Value of Strategy in Trump’s World
A new book argues that chess or dice is not the right metaphor for war. The right game is poker.
Adin DobkinOct 1, 2017
- Politics
The Southern Curtain: Kapka Kassabova’s “Border”
Jacob Mikanowski on Kapka Kassabova’s travel memoir “Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe.”
Jacob MikanowskiOct 1, 2017
The Monthly Digest: October 2017
Oct 1, 2017