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Between Parturition and Manufacture
All versions of "A Star Is Born" in various ways worry away at the ambiguity in the title. What does it mean to say a star is “born”?
All Essays
The Texas Senate Race Is Not “Historic”
Fifty years before Tuesday’s US Senate election, a multiracial coalition of civil rights activists rewrote the rules of Texas politics.
Roland Barthes and the Urgency of Nuance
Philip Sayers on the difficulty and importance of recovering Roland Barthes’s engagement of the neutral in our political moment.
The LARB Ball NBA Roundtable
On the inevitability of professional basketball
Radical Acts of Flyness
Jorge Cotte attends to the dialogues of feeling underneath Terence Nance's unconventional HBO series.
The Turk and the Diplomat: An Introduction to Ivo Andrić’s “Omer Pasha Latas”
LARB presents William T. Vollmann’s introduction to Ivo Andrić’s “Omer Pasha Latas: Marshal to the Sultan,” published by NYRB Classics this month.
Hungry Hearts: The Digestive Tract Trilogy of Hamsun’s “Hunger,” Kafka’s “A Hunger Artist,” and Sartre’s “Nausea”
Hamsun’s "Hunger," Kafka’s “A Hunger Artist,” and Sartre’s "Nausea" are timeless works from a past that must be reckoned with. But what do they say today?
The Torturer
Today’s election in Brazil will almost certainly elevate a crude Trumpian nationalist.
The Second Front Door: A Poem
The Death of a Salesman: Donald Trump and the Persuasion Paradox
Donald Trump’s reputation as a salesman conceals a secret: he's terrible at the art of persuasion.
The Shirley Jackson 5: The Haunting of Hill House (Eps. 1-5)
Dear TV, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within
How Hollow Speech Enables Hostile Speech, and What to Do About It
Jim Sleeper considers the commercial and legal underpinnings of “hate speech.”
Los Angeles, City of Poets
Los Angeles poets on the city they love.
It Just Made Perfect Sense: Dorothy, a Publishing Project
Danielle Dutton and Martin Riker’s Dorothy, a Publishing Project is a small feminist press that isn’t stopping anytime soon.
Into Freedom
Manhood cannot be found on mountain summits, just a good view and a good story.
This Broken World: On “The Banner Saga”
Video games might seem an odd place to turn for representations of environmental collapse, but "The Banner Saga" accomplishes what other mediums have not.
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