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Economics for the Age of TikTok
Rachel Dec reviews Kyla Scanlon’s “In This Economy? How Money and Markets Really Work.”
Archive
The Lie of the Land: June Fourth, Censorship, and “On the Edge”
Thomas Chen reviews Margaret Hillenbrand’s “On the Edge: Feeling Precarious in China.”
Death Blows
Tosten Burks watches Photay and Celia Hollander throw caution to “The Wind” at Fairfax’s Brain Dead Studios.
Nell Irvin Painter at the Crossroads of Art, Politics, and Race in America
Eric Newman speaks with author Nell Irvin Painter about her latest collection of essays, “I Just Keep Talking.”
Reviving “Ophelia”: On Returning to the Music of Natalie Merchant
Jenny Boyar writes about her midlife rediscovery of singer-songwriter Natalie Merchant.
It Hurts To See Them Go
Kate Sadoff reviews Jonathan Vigliotti’s “Before It’s Gone: Stories from the Front Lines of Climate Change in Small-Town America.”
I Had the Time of My Afterlife
Brittany Menjivar attends Boardner’s goth club in Hollywood and finds that she’s in parties. It’s in the can!
Unhooking: On the Gigification of Intimacy
Kelly Coyne examines gig-work philosophy in Emma Cline’s novel “The Guest” and Gene Stupnitsky’s movie “No Hard Feelings.”
Junk and Underwear: Fabrication and Factography in the Soviet Union
Wendi Bootes examines the contradictory nature of facts through an assessment of Soviet factography, in an excerpt from LARB Quarterly no. 41, “Truth.”
Keeping Up with the Klimate
Hannah Bonner connects Kōhei Saitō’s book “Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto” to Sara Sowell’s short film “Color Negative” by way of the Kardashians.
The DMZ at 70
Matthew Longo reflects on the surreal experience of the DMZ, where borders create both division and unity.
Another Kind of Prescience
Hannah Sage Kay reviews David K. Seitz’s “A Different Trek: Radical Geographies of ‘Deep Space Nine.’”
Coastal Solitaire
Randall Mann interviews Christian Gullette about "Coachella Elegy."
Quality Control
At the Lucy Bull opening’s after-party, Eli Diner assesses the state of criticism, L.A. art, and the ridiculous way collectors are treated.
The Energy to Imagine Him: On Salman Rushdie’s “Knife”
Shehryar Fazli reviews Salman Rushdie’s “Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder.”
Creation for Survival: A Conversation with Kendra Sullivan
Celina Su interviews Kendra Sullivan about “Reps.”
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