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The Scar of a Language
Katharina Volckmer reviews Pol Guasch’s “Napalm in the Heart,” translated by Mara Faye Lethem.
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Bourgeois Dreams, Black Rebellion
In an excerpt from “The Black Utopians,” Aaron Robertson writes on the early years of Albert Cleage Jr. and Detroit’s Black bourgeoisie.
Imagine More for Women
Caroline Reilly discusses how Scandinavian women writers have become known for a more complex kind of crime fiction.
Emily Witt’s “Health and Safety: A Breakdown”
Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher talk to Emily Witt about her latest book, “Health and Safety: A Breakdown.”
How Democrats Can Win Back Rural America
Tom Zoellner searches for solutions to the Democratic Party’s “rural problem.”
Weird Nonfiction
Clayton Purdom situates nonfictional works designed “with the intention of upsetting, disturbing, or confusing the audience,” in an essay from the LARB Quarterly issue no. 42, “Gossip.”
The Dark Shadow of the Chinese Dream
Sasha Karsavina examines Mingwei Song’s “Fear of Seeing” and the first two books of Han Song’s “Hospital” trilogy.
Arizona! You Won’t Believe It!
Michael Downs reviews Richard Grant’s “A Race to the Bottom of Crazy: Dispatches from Arizona.”
Place Out of No Place
Melissa Seley paints a picture of Alice Neel, through the eyes of Hilton Als, at David Zwirner in Los Angeles.
A Politics to Conjure a People
Carmen E. Lamas reviews Renee Hudson’s “Latinx Revolutionary Horizons: Form and Futurity in the Americas.”
Tolkien Criticism Today, Revisited
Dennis Wilson Wise reviews two books on Tolkien and the challenges Tolkien studies faces when engaging the wider discipline.
The Source of All Amazement
M. Keith Booker reviews “Playground” by Richard Powers.
The Universe Just Doesn’t Care
Kate Durbin interviews Juliet Escoria about her new story collection “You Are the Snake.”
To Linger in the Wisdom of Doubt
Alessia Degraeve reviews Garth Greenwell’s “Small Rain.”
Clear Eyes, Empty Town, Can’t Win
Will Leitch considers the heartbreak of small-town football in his review of John M. Glionna’s “No Friday Night Lights.”
Danger Done Safely
Elizabeth Alsop investigates how the latest season of “Only Murders in the Building” reveals the pleasures and limits of coziness, in the latest installment of Screen Shots.
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