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The Man Who Believed He Could Have Raised Hitler to Be a Nice Person
Åsmund Borgen Gjerde excavates the link between Ole Ivar Lovaas’s Nazi past and his UCLA-based work on “curing” autistic children.
All Essays
The Heir Conditioner
The LARB Quarterly, issue no. 44, “Pressure,” presents an excerpt from Hannah Zeavin’s “Mother Media.”
Mafalda
The LARB Quarterly presents an excerpt from Quino’s “Mafalda,” translated by Frank Wynne, in issue no. 44, “Pressure.”
The Freeway Novel
Skijler Hutson considers how the Los Angeles freeway system has figured in fiction.
In Its Purest Form
Claire Messud reads “Lolita” on its 70th anniversary, in an essay from the LARB Quarterly, issue no. 44, “Pressure.”
Achmed Abdullah, Swinging Caravan
In this new installment of an ongoing series, LARB founder Tom Lutz reflects on Achmed Abdullah’s significance in the year 1925.
Jolted out of Our Aesthetic Skins
Simon Wu writes on “Mario Kart” and fiction in Las Vegas in an essay from the LARB Quarterly, issue no. 44, “Pressure.”
The Destructive Character: A Cover
Robert Pogue Harrison offers a recasting of Walter Benjamin’s 1931 essay for our own time.
Mann Men
Clayton Purdom explores an oeuvre of men in crisis in an essay from the LARB Quarterly, issue no. 44, “Pressure.”
Preparing for the Plunge
David Amsden returns to John Cheever’s “The Swimmer” while cruising Los Angeles’s rentable swimming pools.
It’s All Greek and yet Frighteningly Comprehensible.
Robert Zaretsky and Michael Barnes consider Thucydides’s “History of the Peloponnesian War.”
The Victory Picture
Alessandro Camon considers the vicious circle of visible carnage.
The Transversal Spirit of the Feminist Strike
Amy Reed-Sandoval considers feminist anti-fascism in the writings of Verónica Gago.
Learning from Park Planned Homes
Kate Wolf considers Gregory Ain’s Altadena housing development in the wake of the Los Angeles fires.
Music and Mystery
Jill Bialosky interviews David St. John about his new book of poems, “Prayer for My Daughter.”
William Faulkner’s Polish Afterlife
Michał Choiński ponders the sudden popularity of new translations of William Faulkner’s novels in Poland.
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