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Out of the Mouth of Bots: Child Genius and Generative Machines
In an excerpt from LARB Quarterly no. 41, “Truth,” Emily Wells and Aaron Bornstein scrutinize a pair of child geniuses.
Archive
Ozempic: Reshaping Desire Since 2023
Ozempic is a drug against addiction. Is it also a drug for … virtue? wonders political scientist Krzysztof Pelc.
A Fair’s in Order
Brittany Menjivar catches a Rave Wave and accepts Grogu’s invite to an exhibition of nerds at the L.A. County Fair.
What Was the Sitcom? On Grace Lavery’s “Closures”
Isabel Bartholomew reviews Grace Lavery’s “Closures: Heterosexuality and the American Sitcom.”
Spooky Entanglements: “Anatomy of a Fall,” “Constellation,” and “The Signal”
Michael Szalay on twinned productions and other IP shenanigans in “Anatomy of a Fall,” “Constellation,” and “The Signal.”
A Psychomagical Afternoon with Alejandro Jodorowsky
Legacy Russell’s “Black Meme”
Writer and curator Legacy Russell joins Kate Wolf to discuss her new book, “Black Meme,” which theorizes the history of viral images of Blackness in America from the dawn of the 20th century to the present.
The Patient Is a White Gay Man: A Conversation with Jonathan Alexander
Christine Hyung-Oak Lee speaks with Jonathan Alexander about his memoir “Stroke Book: The Diary of a Blindspot.”
Beamed from Within: On Harlan Ellison’s “Greatest Hits”
Greg Cwik reviews the new compilation of work from writer Harlan Ellison.
Here Be Monstrous Architects: On Joshua Comaroff and Ong Ker-Shing’s “Horror in Architecture”
Stephanie Schoellman reviews Joshua Comaroff and Ong Ker-Shing’s “Horror in Architecture: The Reanimated Edition.”
Making Stones Stony: On Jordan Abel’s “Empty Spaces”
Sarah Dowling reviews Jordan Abel’s new novel “Empty Spaces.”
Bittersweet Wednesday Recollections
David Diaz is no rat, but he saw God in the form of Wednesday headlining the Bellwether in L.A. last Friday.
Sincerity, Delicately Spun: On Honor Levy’s “My First Book”
Conor Truax reviews Honor Levy’s “My First Book.”
Our Future Is Not Foreclosed: A Conversation with Emily Raboteau
Scott Burton interviews Emily Raboteau about “Lessons for Survival: Mothering Against ‘the Apocalypse.’”
Hot Moms in Your Area
Fiction moms have got it going on, Brittany Menjivar discovers at Kimberly King Parsons’s Skylight Books reading.
Grief-Wild in This Orphan World: On R. O. Kwon’s “Exhibit”
Ryan Lackey reviews R. O. Kwon’s new novel “Exhibit.”
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