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The Cult of Orgasm
Helena Aeberli traces Ellen Huet’s investigations in “Empire of Orgasm: Sex, Power, and the Downfall of a Wellness Cult.”
Archive
In the Shadow of Yesterday
Aurelian Craiutu thinks about Balázs Trencsényi’s “Intellectuals and the Crisis of Politics in the Interwar Period and Beyond: A Transnational History.”
Don’t Close Your Teeth
Cynthia Zarin traces the rise of fascism through the diary entries of Virginia Woolf, in an essay from LARB Quarterly no. 47: “Security.”
Laboring in the Dream Factory
Harry Stecopoulos reviews Olivia Laing’s new novel “The Silver Book.”
On Adaptation: From Page to Screen
In November 2024, writers Viet Thanh Nguyen, Jonathan Ames, Anna Dorn, and Jane Hu gathered at LITLIT for a discussion with Paul Thompson about how it feels to take a work from book to screen.
Nothing Ever Happens: “Mister Squishy” and the Year of the Sentence Diagram
Hannah Smart writes about her attempt to diagram a 900-word sentence in David Foster Wallace’s “Mister Squishy,” and what the efforts taught her about human inertia and meaningless language.
Sheer Tenderness
Jessica Simmons-Reid visits Noah Davis’s posthumous survey at the Hammer Museum.
Bones, Roses, and Ruins
Janet Sarbanes encounters Nancy Buchanan’s career retrospective at the Brick in Los Angeles.
A Mole in MAGA’s Midst
Alexandre Lefebvre reads “Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right” by Laura K. Field.
Under the Surface
Adam Straus speaks with Yannick Murphy about her new novel “Things That Are Funny on a Submarine but Not Really.”
An Emergency Born of Prosperity
Zoe Adams considers “There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America” by Brian Goldstone.
What’s the Difference Between a God and a Monster?
Heather Macumber reviews Brandon Grafius’s “Scared by the Bible: The Roots of Horror in Scripture.”
Philosophy’s Warnings in the “Absence” of Emergency
William Egginton pays heed to Santiago Zabala’s “Signs from the Future: A Philosophy of Warnings.”
Springtime for Springnuts
Grant Sharples offers a personal account of the Boss’s career and legacy in light of the new biopic “Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere.”
Everyone Feels Deeply Alabamian
Cameron Engwall talks with Alexis Okeowo about her second book, “Blessings and Disasters: A Story of Alabama.”
Hello, Kitty; Goodbye, Illusions
Minjie Chen takes a journey through China’s shadowlands in “Hello, Kitty and Other Stories” by Anne Stevenson-Yang.
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