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Mothers and Daughters and Sons, Oh My!
Mother’s Day inspires Emily Quintanilla to revisit Azarin Sadegh’s review of “What My Mother and I Don’t Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence,” a book of reflective essays edited by Michele Filgate.
Archive
What Was Haunting Me Was Not Myself: A Conversation with Morgan Parker
Tiffany Troy interviews poet Morgan Parker about her debut book of essays, “You Get What You Pay For.”
Scars Prove You Lived: On Stephen Graham Jones’s “The Angel of Indian Lake”
Justin Wigard reviews Stephen Graham Jones’s “The Angel of Indian Lake.”
Coloring Outside Your Guidelines
A. J. Urquidi asks, “Who’s punk? What’s the score?” to a bunch of rad nerds at Cal State Fullerton’s PunkCon 3.
Danielle Dutton’s “Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other”
Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher are joined by writer and publisher Danielle Dutton, author of “Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other” as well as “Margaret the First” and “Sprawl.”
Continuity Errors: On the New Old Films of Francis Ford Coppola
Dylan Adamson positions the discourses around Francis Ford Coppola’s “Megalopolis” within the director’s larger body of work.
For Whom Is Campus to Be Safe?
Prof. Saree Makdisi diagnoses how the university, the police, and the media have failed our students protesting on behalf of Gazan lives.
On Giving Up
In this special episode, hosts Medaya Ocher, Kate Wolf, and Eric Newman discuss the case for and against giving up—on life, vices, dreams, creative pursuits, jobs, relationships, exercise, and work.
Mythic Appetites: On Meta-Desires, Marriage, and Meals in the Personal Essay
Kristen Malone Poli examines the true hunger at the heart of the divorce plot.
Invented Jewish Folktales
In an excerpt from LARB Quarterly no. 41, “Truth,” Sam Sax presents lore so uncanny, it might as well be real.
True Fictionalizations: On Angie Sijun Lou’s “Dark Soil” Anthology
David Lewis reviews the new anthology “Dark Soil: Fictions and Mythographies,” edited by Angie Sijun Lou.
Who Tells the Stories of Chinese Leaders? On Two New Biographies
Lucy Hornby discusses two recent biographies about former Chinese leaders Zhou Enlai and Hua Guofeng.
Most Valuable Pfeiffer
Brandon Sward wades through spectral sports audio in search of that yummy-yum at Paul Pfeiffer’s retrospective at MOCA’s Geffen Contemporary.
Company in the Void: On Catherine Barnett’s “Solutions for the Problem of Bodies in Space”
James Ciano reviews Catherine Barnett’s “Solutions for the Problem of Bodies in Space.”
Echo, Echo: Death, Rebirth, and New Age Music
In an excerpt from LARB Quarterly no. 41, “Truth,” Peter Holslin reflects on synthesizer drones, inoffensive ambience, and his father’s affinity for New Age soundscapes.
Bad Dad Jokes: On Lucas Mann’s “Attachments”
Adam Fleming Petty reviews Lucas Mann’s “Attachments: Essays on Fatherhood and Other Performance,” rooting his analysis in his personal experience.
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