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Noise from Signal: On Matthew Coller’s “Football Is a Numbers Game”
Leif Weatherby reviews Matthew Coller’s “Football Is a Numbers Game: Pro Football Focus and How a Data-Driven Approach Shook Up the Sport.”
Archive
A Memoryless Hong Kong: On Shibani Mahtani and Timothy McLaughlin’s “Among the Braves” and Brian Kern’s “Liberate Hong Kong”
Joshua Yang reviews two new books on Hong Kong protests—Shibani Mahtani and Timothy McLaughlin’s “Among the Braves: Hope, Struggle, and Exile in the Battle for Hong Kong and the Future of Global Democracy” and Brian Kern’s “Liberate Hong Kong: Stories from the Freedom Struggle.”
The Kids Are Alright
In the wake of his recent reconsideration, current intern Belén Yudess pulls up an article David Graeber co-authored.
The Bottom of the Funnel: On Blacks, Jews, Whiteness, Conspiracy, and Hip-Hop
Adam Mansbach writes about his experience growing up among antisemitism and hip-hop.
Leaving Me My Eyes: On Andrew Leland’s “The Country of the Blind”
Deanna K. Kreisel reviews Andrew Leland’s “The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight.”
Kate the Great
Rebecca Giordano attends Kate Berlant’s one-woman show in Pasadena and finds that, sometimes, bigger is indeed better.
Nathan Thrall’s “A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy”
Writer Nathan Thrall joins Kate Wolf to talk about his recent book, “A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy,” which was published last October and named one of the best books of the year by The New Yorker, The Economist, The New Republic, and the Financial Times.
White-centric Blowback: On Jason Ruiz’s “Narcomedia”
Michael Sandlin reviews Jason Ruiz’s “Narcomedia: Latinidad, Popular Culture, and the War on Drugs.”
The Last of the Menckenians: Struggling with an American Iconoclast
Michael Downs considers the troubled state of the institution that preserves the work of H. L. Mencken.
Sidewalk Geometry
Marie Catalano considers how sometimes all the artist has to do is see the art that’s always already there.
Sequence: Excerpt from “A Map of Future Ruins” by Lauren Markham
LARB presents an excerpt of Lauren Markham’s new book “A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging.”
Self-Inventory: On Gregory Pardlo’s “Spectral Evidence”
Katie Berta reviews Gregory Pardlo’s “Spectral Evidence.”
Appreciating Appreciation
Come for the Gen-X indie film legend, stay for the 245-piece disposable Jack Sparrow tableware set.
Antitheory: On Anna Kornbluh’s “Immediacy”
Grace Byron reviews Anna Kornbluh’s “Immediacy: Or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism.”
Premium Content: On Anna Kornbluh’s “Immediacy”
Christina Fogarasi reviews Anna Kornbluh’s “Immediacy: Or, the Style of Too Late Capitalism.”
Simpler Times
Meet me at the coastal indie sleaze–themed comedy show/birthday warehouse party in Downtown Los Angeles?
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