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Keeping an Opa Mind
A. J. Urquidi o-lives his best life on Labor Day weekend with the Greeks and geeks in Long Beach.
Archive
Bird by Bird, Brick by Brick
Meredith Maran interviews Danzy Senna about her new novel “Colored Television.”
Security Theater
Adam Straus reviews Richard Beck’s “Homeland: The War on Terror in American Life.”
A Reluctant Übermensch
D. Harlan Wilson reviews Keanu Reeves and China Miéville’s “The Book of Elsewhere.”
New Languages, New Music
Rosanna Young Oh reviews Jimin Seo’s "OSSIA."
For the God of Love, for the Love of Florida
As Florida enters peak hurricane season, Cherith King reflects on Lauren Groff’s 2018 depiction of her home state and its residents.
Meteor, Star, Galaxy, Caven
LARB presents a new essay by Erika Balsom, excerpted from Fireflies Press’s edited collection “Ingrid Caven: I Am a Fiction,” publishing this September.
Talk
Kristen Radtke defends Linda Rosenkrantz’s underappreciated classic novel “Talk,” in a comic from the LARB Quarterly issue no. 42, “Gossip.”
Outside the Lucky Few
Eli Diner joins the vandals, metalheads, and nitrous ballooners in viewing Kevin Bouton-Scott’s Downtown L.A. painting retrospective.
Sofia Samatar’s “Opacities: On Writing and the Writing Life”
Sofia Samatar speaks with Kate Wolf about her new book “Opacities: On Writing and the Writing Life.”
Continuing Peril
Sarah Yanni reviews Cheryl Clarke’s “Archive of Style: New and Selected Poems.”
Notes on Disappearing: A Life in Fragments
Veronica Gonzalez Peña explores fragmented memories of a childhood, in light of the 2014 murder of 43 Mexican students, in a story from the LARB Quarterly issue no. 42, “Gossip.”
The Dog Ears of Summer
Brittany Menjivar grabs her jacket and spine and spends Friday night with her nose in A Good Used Book in Historic Filipinotown.
The Comfort of Memory
Leo Lasdun reviews two debut novels at the end(?) of alt-lit: Gabriel Smith’s “Brat” and Matthew Davis’s “Let Me Try Again.”
Tricky Business
Jack Skelley locates the line between authenticity and performance in the new immersive theater performance “Session.”
You Dirty Beasts
Simon Lee reviews “Beasts of England” by Adam Biles, an update to George Orwell’s “Animal Farm.”
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