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Down(town) in the Underground
While attending the Labyrinth Masquerade Ball, Brittany Menjivar gets reminded of the babe, the babe with the power, the power of—no, don’t even get me started.
Brittany MenjivarAug 28, 2024
A Singular Man
Jim Berg reviews Katherine Bucknell’s “Christopher Isherwood Inside Out.”
Jim BergAug 27, 2024
- Biography & Autobiography
Friday Night Is for the Good Boys
Can Sugar Daddy, Doctor KA, and Bicep Boyfriend team up to save 4th Street from Insatiable Capitalism? A. J. Urquidi is on the scene to find out.
A. J. UrquidiAug 27, 2024
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.
Madeleine ConnorsAug 27, 2024
Our Defining Stains
Emmeline Clein interviews Dream Baby Press co-founder Matt Starr about his debut book of poetry, “Mouthful.”
Emmeline CleinAug 26, 2024
- Poetry
- Gender & Sexuality
GROUP CHAT: Group Chats
For the LARB Quarterly issue no. 42, “Gossip,” our editors started a group chat on group chats.
Jamie Hood, Sophia Stewart, Hillary Brenhouse, Daniel Lavery, Tal Rosenberg, Summer Kim Lee, Whitney Mallett, Sarah Thankam Mathews, Sophie Kemp, Natasha StaggAug 26, 2024
- LARB Lit
- Memoir & Essay
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.”
Madeline UllrichAug 25, 2024
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.”
Elena MegalosAug 25, 2024
- LARB Lit
- Memoir & Essay
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.”
Jamieson WebsterAug 24, 2024
- LARB Lit
- Literary Criticism
Totalitarian Gigantomania
Tim Brinkhof explores the poetics and politics of the cruise-ship essay.
Tim BrinkhofAug 24, 2024
- Memoir & Essay
- Politics
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.”
LARB Radio HourAug 23, 2024
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.
Sadie Sartini GarnerAug 23, 2024
- Music
- Memoir & Essay
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.”
Sanaë LemoineAug 23, 2024
- LARB Lit
Mortal Coil Shuffle
Tosten Burks finds himself among the labyrinth walkers of Los Angeles.
Tosten BurksAug 23, 2024
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.
Emily R. Klancher MerchantAug 22, 2024
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.
Madeleine ConnorsAug 22, 2024