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How Are We Not Talking About This All the Time?
Victoria Sturtevant reviews Pamela Adlon’s new film “Babes.”
Archive
Slavery’s Tortured Figure
J. R. Kerr-Ritchie reviews Randy M. Browne’s “The Driver’s Story: Labor and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery.”
I Would Do Anything for Indie Pop
All the other kids with the pumped-up kicks can’t outrun Brittany Menjivar’s excitement at the Foster the People show in West Hollywood.
How to Hug a Cactus Tree
Paul Allen Anderson reviews Ann Powers’s “Traveling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell.”
Too Little, Too Late for TV’s Woman Writer?
Annie Berke considers the figure of the woman writer in the popular TV series “Bridgerton” and “Hacks,” in the latest installment of Screen Shots.
Two New Poems: “Of Beauty” and “Mental”
David St. John and Andrea Werblin Reid consider speech acts in their various complexities in two poems from the LARB Quarterly issue no. 42, “Gossip.”
The Worst Sect of People
Sheila McClear reviews “Men Have Called Her Crazy,” a supposed tell-all memoir by Anna Marie Tendler.
What Were These Women to Me?
Ruth Madievsky closes the gate on her college rumor mill in a personal essay from the LARB Quarterly issue no. 42, “Gossip.”
Eugene Lim’s “Fog & Car”
Eric Newman speaks with Eugene Lim about his novel “Fog & Car.”
The Glory and Freedom of Our Ukraine Has Not Yet Perished
Nick Owchar reviews Reuben Woolley’s new translation of Andrey Kurkov’s “Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv.”
The Editor Is Willing to Buy the Manuscript
Timo Schaefer reviews Mateo Jarquín’s “The Sandinista Revolution: A Global Latin American History.”
Pornography
Rhian Sasseen depicts the relationship between a lonely man and his phone—one that takes a sudden, surreal turn—in a short story from the LARB Quarterly issue no. 42, “Gossip.”
Infinite, Fragmented Anguishes
Tess Pollok interviews Aria Dean about her collection “Bad Infinity,” Afropessimism, police brutality, and Black radical thought, on the one-year anniversary of the book’s release.
Social Justice for the Upper Middle Class?
Irene Katz Connelly reviews Jo Hamya’s novel “The Hypocrite.”
Splintered Loves, Splintered Selves
Raffi Joe Wartanian reviews Nancy Agabian’s “The Fear of Large and Small Nations.”
The Writing Shows Up
For James Baldwin’s 100th birthday, Cherith King reflects on the literary giant’s everlasting charm.
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