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What’s Wrong with L.A.?
Brittany Menjivar is in the club while you’re online reading her review of the Dare’s show at El Rey.
Archive
Rumaan Alam’s “Entitlement”
In this special episode of the LARB Radio Hour in advance of LARB’s fall Book Club, Medaya Ocher talks with Rumaan Alam about his new novel, “Entitlement.”
American Mythology
Is the United States a prisoner of its own mythology? Tom Zoellner looks at “A Great Disorder” by Richard Slotkin.
Refuge as a Way of Life
Michael McGhee reviews “Pessimism, Quietism and Nature as Refuge” by David E. Cooper.
Self-Flagellation, Not Self-Discovery
Carolina Abbott Galvão Reviews Clara Drummond’s “Role Play,” translated by Daniel Hahn.
The Weight of Estrangement
Grace Linden reviews Deborah Levy’s “The Position of Spoons: And Other Intimacies.”
Each New Day, I Get Another Year Older
In unearthed journals, A. J. Urquidi attends three consecutive shows around L.A. and is, perhaps, still out there now, lost to the gothic night.
Life Finds a Way
Anne Sawyier reviews Hannah McGregor’s new book, “Clever Girl: Jurassic Park” in the context of big tech’s takeover of Hollywood.
Back Seat Witness-Bearing
Anna Marie Cain interviews Sarah Gerard about “Carrie Carolyn Coco: My Friend, Her Murder, and an Obsession with the Unthinkable.”
More Than Just a Fun Trompe-l’Oeil
Brittany Menjivar connects with nepo baby pyromaniacs and rizzmatic chefs at the second installment of the Honorable Mention screening series.
The Most Moral Army
Mary Turfah examines Israeli officials’ weaponization of language, particularly that of medicine, in an attempt to reframe their genocide in Gaza.
Patty Jenkins on the Power of Storytelling
Award-winning director, screenwriter, and producer Patty Jenkins joins the Thomas Mann House for a special episode of 55 Voices.
They Haven’t Kept Austin Weird
Bill Thompson reviews Alex Hannaford’s “Lost in Austin: The Evolution of an American City.”
Everyone’s from Somewhere
Matthew Ritchie reviews “There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension” by Hanif Abdurraqib.
Everyone Is Implicated
Randy Rosenthal reviews Juliet Grames’s new Italian mystery "The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia."
The Inconvenient Scholarship of Kevin Roberts
Samuel G. Freedman traces the long and contradictory intellectual journey of the man behind Project 2025.
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