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No More Hunger and Thirst? On Barbra Streisand’s “My Name Is Barbra”
Dolores McElroy reviews Barbra Streisand’s memoir “My Name Is Barbra.”
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The Pulsing Innards of Jack Skelley
Emily Ann Zisko faces her complete fear of Jack Skelley’s “Fear of Kathy Acker,” adapted for the Santa Monica stage by Siena Foster-Soltis.
LARB Radio Hour x Film Comment 2024 Oscars Preview
In this special episode, Eric Newman chats with LARB Film & TV editor Annie Berke and Film Comment co-editors Devika Girish and Clinton Krute for a preview of this year’s Academy Awards.
It Takes an Audience: On Jessi Jezewska Stevens’s “Ghost Pains”
Charlie Hope-D’Anieri reviews Jessi Jezewska Stevens’s “Ghost Pains.”
Differentially Unwell: On Mimi Khúc’s “dear elia”
Seo-Young Chu reviews Mimi Khúc’s “dear elia: Letters from the Asian American Abyss.”
20,000 Leagues Under the OC
LARB copydesk chief A. J. Ur-squid-i asks, “What’s Kraken?” at Squid’s Leap Day show at the Orange County Observatory.
The Lord of Auschwitz Asks to See a Priest: On James Bernauer’s “Auschwitz & Absolution”
Jack Miles reviews James Bernauer’s “Auschwitz & Absolution: The Case of the Commandant and the Confessor” in light of the new film “The Zone of Interest.”
Viewing the Ob-scene: On Jonathan Glazer’s “The Zone of Interest”
David Hering reviews Jonathan Glazer’s film “The Zone of Interest.”
Her Beehive Heart: On Leslie Jamison’s “Splinters”
Lisa Locascio Nighthawk reviews Leslie Jamison’s “Splinters: Another Kind of Love Story.”
A Wound Is Objective: A Conversation with Édouard Louis
Stephen Patrick Bell interviews Édouard Louis about his new book “Change.”
Rob Faucette on Lester Balog
1:1 invites writers to reflect on a single work of art with focus, care, and imagination to expand how we view, receive, and write about art.
The Butcher, the Brewer, the Opium Smuggler: On Amitav Ghosh’s “Smoke and Ashes”
Noah Sparkes reviews Amitav Ghosh’s “Smoke and Ashes: Opium’s Hidden Histories.”
That Mystic Shit: On Lou Reed’s “The Art of the Straight Line” and Will Hermes’s “The King of New York”
Michael Scott Moore writes on the life, death, and possible religion of Lou Reed, via Lou Reed’s “The Art of the Straight Line: My Tai Chi” and Will Hermes’s “Lou Reed: The King of New York.”
Leslie Jamison’s “Splinters: Another Kind of Love Story”
Leslie Jamison joins Medaya and Kate to discuss her latest book “Splinters: Another Kind of Love Story,” a memoir that chronicles the birth of her daughter and the collapse of her marriage soon after.
A New Hong Kong Cinema That Lives On: On Tiffany Sia’s “On and Off-Screen Imaginaries”
Jenny Wu reviews Tiffany Sia’s “On and Off-Screen Imaginaries.”
No Accident: On Two New Books About the Occupied Territories
David N. Myers reviews Nathan Thrall’s “A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy” and Mikhael Manekin’s “End of Days: Ethics, Tradition, and Power in Israel.”
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