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Sadness and Strange Beauty: On Manjula Martin’s “The Last Fire Season”
Ellie Eberlee reviews Manjula Martin’s “The Last Fire Season: A Personal and Pyronatural History.”
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Sharp, Creamy, Fresh, Funky, Nutty
Brandon Sward attends a reading at a Downtown L.A. gallery and finds a well-balanced cheese board of the literary present.
A Million Years’ Struggle: On Carlos Cortéz Koyokuikatl's “Coyote’s Song”
Elizabeth Henson reviews Carlos Cortéz Koyokuikatl's “Coyote’s Song: Collected Poems & Selected Art.”
Haunting Objects: On the Work of Darrel Ellis
Jonathan Alexander considers the work of Black, queer photographer Darrel Ellis, whose work is receiving renewed attention.
Who Gets to Name What’s Evil? On Blake Butler’s “Molly”
Mike Jeffrey reviews Blake Butler’s “Molly.”
Empire and Liberalism—a Saidian Reading: On Jeanne Morefield’s “Unsettling the World”
Conor McCarthy reviews Jeanne Morefield’s “Unsettling the World: Edward Said and Political Theory.”
I Will Never Die, Part 2
Sadie Sartini Garner meditates on mortality, music, and Christianity for LARB Quarterly, no. 40: “Water.”
The Human and the Holy: On Sarah Ghazal Ali’s “Theophanies”
Adedayo Agarau reviews Sarah Ghazal Ali’s “Theophanies.”
Walk on the Wild Side
Brittany Menjivar was so preoccupied with whether or not she could, she didn't stop to think if she should (luckily, she was right).
Race, Money, and the Pursuit of Poetry in the US Today: A Conversation with Megan Fernandes and Edgar Kunz
Natasha Hakimi Zapata interviews Megan Fernandes and Edgar Kunz about their new poetry collections.
Specific Solitudes: On Athena Dixon’s “The Loneliness Files”
Diana Ruzova reviews Athena Dixon’s “The Loneliness Files.”
L.A.’s Uncool School
Damon Willick returns to an important moment in Los Angeles art history and finds it more diverse than some might remember.
How Does Forgiveness Heal? On Myisha Cherry’s “Failures of Forgiveness”
Gregory Laski reviews Myisha Cherry’s “Failures of Forgiveness: What We Get Wrong and How to Do Better.”
Ironic Detachment Will No Longer Do: On Sarah Watling’s “Tomorrow Perhaps the Future”
Ian Ellison reviews Sarah Watling’s “Tomorrow Perhaps the Future: Writers, Outsiders, and the Spanish Civil War.”
Looking Back on “Art Inside”
Ginny Emiko Oshiro reflects on Annie Buckley’s Art Inside series and her work with the Prison Arts Collective.
The Body and Its Denizen: On Kate Manne’s “Unshrinking”
Emmeline Clein reviews Kate Manne’s “Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia.”
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