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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.
Archive
Election Desk 2024: Unquiet Spirits
Heather Kenny takes the temperature around the DNC in the first dispatch from LARB’s Election Desk.
Stupidity for Dummies
Aaron Schuster explores the intersection of Flaubert, language, and ChatGPT in an essay from the LARB Quarterly issue no. 42, “Gossip.”
A Match Made in Memes
Brittany Menjivar interviews actor, filmmaker, and meme admin Peter Vack about his debut novel, “Sillyboy.”
How Are We Not Talking About This All the Time?
Victoria Sturtevant reviews Pamela Adlon’s new film “Babes.”
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.”
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