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Nothing Is Trivial
Brittany Menjivar lunges for the buzzer at Wednesday Night Trivia in Los Feliz’s Bigfoot Lodge.
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To Be Real: On Emily Nussbaum’s “Cue the Sun!”
Olivia Stowell reviews Emily Nussbaum’s “Cue the Sun! The Invention of Reality TV.”
Thick with Her Own Threads: On Rosalind Brown’s “Practice”
Meara Sharma reviews Rosalind Brown’s “Practice.”
Necromancer: On Frederick Seidel’s “So What”
Erick Verran reviews Frederick Seidel’s “So What.”
Heartbreak Supernova: On Carrie Courogen’s “Miss May Does Not Exist”
Tim Riley reviews Carrie Courogen’s “Miss May Does Not Exist: The Life and Work of Elaine May, Hollywood’s Hidden Genius.”
Bringing Up Radiant Baby
Look How They Massacred, My Boy
Eli Osei reminds you to never take sides against the family.
Cupcakes and Crotch Kicks: On Alex Belth’s “What Makes Sammy Jr. Run?”
Tom Zoellner considers the eternal game of cat and mouse between celebrities and journalists in Alex Belth’s “What Makes Sammy Jr. Run? Classic Celebrity Journalism Volume 1 (1960s and 1970s).”
Embracing the Chaos: On John Mulaney’s “Everybody’s in L.A.”
Henry Luzzatto puzzles over John Mulaney’s Netflix talk show “Everybody’s in L.A.”
An Excerpt from Yasmin Zaher’s “The Coin”
LARB presents an excerpt from Yasmin Zaher’s new book “The Coin.”
A Cloth Woven of Stories Told: John Barth and the Literature of Rectification
Zach Gibson reflects on the late-career achievement of the late novelist John Barth.
There Are a Lot of Hells: A Conversation with Paul Tremblay
Anna Marie Cain interviews Paul Tremblay about horror movies and his novel “Horror Movie.”
Eloquent Contentiousness: On “Farnsworth’s Classical English Argument”
Bryan Garner reviews Ward Farnsworth’s “Classical English Argument,” exposing flaws, foibles, and fallacies employed by English language writers.
A Queer Vision of Old Hollywood
Medaya Ocher and Eric Newman speak with author Patrick Nathan about his latest novel, and this month’s LARB Book Club pick, “The Future Was Color.”
House of Cards: On Sean H. Vanatta’s “Plastic Capitalism”
Carey Mott reviews Sean H. Vanatta’s “Plastic Capitalism: Banks, Credit Cards, and the End of Financial Control.”
Sacralizing Nature: On Marcelo Gleiser’s “The Dawn of a Mindful Universe”
Paolo Musso believes the work of an open-minded, bighearted scientist like Marcelo Gleiser is of paramount importance to our future.
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