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Players with No Game
Madeleine Connors moves through the ranks while brushing off hopeful check-mates at the LA Chess Club Singles Arena in the Fashion District.
Archive
Our Defining Stains
Emmeline Clein interviews Dream Baby Press co-founder Matt Starr about his debut book of poetry, “Mouthful.”
GROUP CHAT: Group Chats
For the LARB Quarterly issue no. 42, “Gossip,” our editors started a group chat on group chats.
The Impossibility of Children’s Television
Madeline Ullrich explores the contradictions of “children’s television” in the Max/ID series “Quiet on Set” and Jane Schoenbrun’s film “I Saw the TV Glow.”
In Bloom
Elena Megalos scrolls Instagram for images of a relationship that might have been, in an essay from the LARB Quarterly issue no. 42, “Gossip.”
Freudulence
Jamieson Webster invokes Sigmund Freud and Ambassador William C. Bullitt in an attempt to psychoanalyze political leaders, in an essay from the LARB Quarterly issue no. 42, “Gossip.”
Totalitarian Gigantomania
Tim Brinkhof explores the poetics and politics of the cruise-ship essay.
Charlotte Shane’s “An Honest Woman: A Memoir of Love and Sex Work”
Charlotte Shane joins Kate Wolf to speak about her latest book, “An Honest Woman: A Memoir of Love and Sex Work.”
True Believer
Sadie Sartini Garner recalls a Nine Inch Nails concert from the year 2000 and wonders where those she stood shoulder to shoulder with have gone.
Who Edu Was
Sanaë Lemoine assembles the fickle pieces of one particularly elusive man’s identity in a short story from the LARB Quarterly issue no. 42, “Gossip.”
Mortal Coil Shuffle
Tosten Burks finds himself among the labyrinth walkers of Los Angeles.
Breeding for IQ
Emily R. Klancher Merchant examines the growing enthusiasm among tech elites for genetically engineering their children, in the third essay of the Legacies of Eugenics series.
Are You Okay, My Love?
In Los Ageless, the winter may never come, but Madeleine Connors will keep runnin’ to the Greek Theatre to witness St. Vincent’s glam.
Election Desk 2024: Unquiet Spirits
Heather Kenny takes the temperature around the DNC in the first dispatch from LARB’s Election Desk.
Stupidity for Dummies
Aaron Schuster explores the intersection of Flaubert, language, and ChatGPT in an essay from the LARB Quarterly issue no. 42, “Gossip.”
A Match Made in Memes
Brittany Menjivar interviews actor, filmmaker, and meme admin Peter Vack about his debut novel, “Sillyboy.”
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