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Archive, Appendix, Hoodie, Home
Lana Lin dissects the literary and bodily significance of the appendix.
Essays
Airbrushed Tan Lines
Whitney Mallett visits a porn shoot in Spain.
When Story Loses the Plot
Hannah H. Kim ponders the plotless narrative as a tool for meaning-making.
He Understood Us
Carrie Courogen remembers the cross-genre brilliance of Rob Reiner’s filmmaking.
Taix
Anahid Nersessian people-watches at Taix in the most recent installment of I Come Here Often, from LARB Quarterly no. 47, “Security.”
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From the Archive
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New Tyrannies
Sophie Kemp considers the recent and ongoing radicalization of young men in the United States.
Happy Birthday, Jane!
To celebrate the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth, Stephanie Insley Hershinow offers a survey of recent Austen-related books and artworks.
Drawing America’s Brutal Imagination
Justin A. Davis writes on Ralph Bakshi’s controversial film “Coonskin” for its 50th anniversary, in a preview of the LARB Quarterly no. 47, “Security.”
Still Got It
Zach Gibson meditates on “late style” in the work of postmodernists like Thomas Pynchon who are still publishing well into their eighties.
An Apocalypse for Every Epoch
Emmett Rensin writes on eco-grief, the climate dirge, and one Armenian monk in a new hybrid fiction-cum-essay from LARB Quarterly no. 47, “Security.”
Filthy Matters
Calvin Gimpelevich writes on the history and politics of public bathrooms, in this essay from LARB Quarterly no. 47, “Security.”
A Fierce and Complicated Compassion
Alix Christie considers Susan Straight’s challenging yet crucial portraits of an “overlooked” California.
Freeing the Library
Aaron Boehmer writes about community libraries and the importance of accessible archival and literary resources in these times.
Letter to the Editor Regarding Victoria Dailey’s “Los Angeles in Black and White”
Johanna Drucker responds to Victoria Dailey’s review of the catalogue raisonné “Paul Landacre: California Hills, Hollywood, and the World Beyond.”
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