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Dads in the Wild: On Lucas Mann’s “Attachments”
Margo Steines reviews Lucas Mann's “Attachments: Essays on Fatherhood and Other Performances.”
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Sluts in Form and Content: A Conversation Between Sarah Yanni and Michelle Tea
Sarah Yanni talks with Michelle Tea about her new anthology “SLUTS.”
Working the Trap: On Suzanne Scanlon’s “Committed”
Diana Heald reviews Suzanne Scanlon’s “Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen.”
Meeting Labor’s Moment: On Hamilton Nolan’s “The Hammer”
Joseph A. McCartin reviews “The Hammer: Power, Inequality, and the Struggle for the Soul of American Labor.”
Theft of the Commons: On David Bellos and Alexandre Montagu’s “Who Owns This Sentence?”
Jessica Rizzo reviews David Bellos and Alexandre Montagu’s “Who Owns This Sentence? A History of Copyrights and Wrongs.”
Anna Shechtman’s “The Riddles of the Sphinx: Inheriting the Feminist History of the Crossword Puzzle”
Scholar and writer Anna Shechtman joins Medaya Ocher to discuss her book “The Riddles of the Sphinx: Inheriting the Feminist History of the Crossword Puzzle.”
I’m Only Interested in the Real: A Conversation Between Rachel Cusk and Ira Sachs
In an excerpt from LARB Quarterly no. 41, “Truth,” writer Rachel Cusk and filmmaker Ira Sachs discuss his new film “Passages,” his oeuvre, and the creative process.
Radioactive as in Radiant: On Liliana Colanzi’s “You Glow in the Dark”
Ruth Joffre reviews Liliana Colanzi’s “You Glow in the Dark.”
Be the Alien: On Julio Torres’s “Problemista”
Enzo Escober reviews Julio Torres’s body of work, but most of all, his debut feature, “Problemista.”
All’s Fair at the Ren Faire
Brittany Menjivar forgoes turkey legs and opts instead for a taste of pulled pork and momento mori at the Renaissance Faire.
True Life: I Called Off My Wedding
In an excerpt from LARB Quarterly no. 41, “Truth,” Sarah Yanni accounts for what she left behind when she called off her wedding—and what she couldn’t.
It Was Me and Not Me All the Time: A Conversation with Eileen Myles
Lydia Eno interviews Eileen Myles for the 30th anniversary of “Chelsea Girls.”
Melody from Noise
Copydesk chief A. J. Urquidi ponders urban doom loops, world peace, and sacred riffage at the Helmet and Cro-Mags show in Los Angeles.
“The Future Was Color” by Patrick Nathan
Hollywood in the 1950s—fresh with queer screenwriters, deceit, and postwar psychosis. Check out our Summer 2024 pick for the LARB Book Club: “The Future Was Color” by Patrick Nathan.
Authoritarian Media: On Peter Pomerantsev’s “How to Win an Information War”
Peter B. Kaufman reviews Peter Pomerantsev’s “How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler.”
Toward a Black Alternative Media: On Robeson Taj Frazier’s “KAOS Theory”
Jamal Batts reviews Robeson Taj Frazier’s “KAOS Theory: The Afrokosmic Ark of Ben Caldwell.”
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