In a parking lot next to a Florida trailer park, a young girl lives in the front seat of her mother’s ’94 Mercury—contemporary America, and its harrowing gun infatuation, provides the backdrop for Pearl’s coming-of-age in this unforgettable novel. Check out our Spring 2018 pick for the LARB Book Club: “Gun Love” by Jennifer Clement.
Ilan Stavans introduces “Poetry Comes out of My Mouth,” a collection of Mario Santiago Papasquiaro’s poems translated by Arturo Mantecón.
Anna Shechtman interviews Joana Avillez and Molly Young, the creators of “D C-T!,” a work in the style of William Steig’s children’s book classics.
"Ready Player One" is an instance of near-perfect alignment of the motives of both hit director and Hollywood studio: an apologia for corporate artwork.
Rachel Shteir looks at tales of violence in Chicago.
Aaron Bady wonders: can you imagine how exhausting it has been to build the Marvel Cinematic Universe?
Historian Amy R. Bloch’s valuable “Lorenzo Ghiberti’s Gates of Paradise” discloses a different kind of splendor, not the splendor of surface but of depth.
Pastor Sam Washington on how black Christians were betrayed by evangelicals.
None of the adaptations of “The Handmaid’s Tale” have yet found themselves able to include the actual ending of the novel.
Is Westworld back on its bullshit? Aaron Bady investigates for Dear Televisions...
Steven Gotzler on the legacy of Richard Hoggart’s “The Uses of Literacy.”
Amy Elias reminds us of what we have lost with the passing of Hayden White, one of the great humanist minds of our time.
Lennard Davis on "A Quiet Place" and the state of deaf characters in contemporary film.
Shoshana Olidort finds sustenance in Amir Nizar Zuabi’s solo show “Oh My Sweet Land.”
Daniel Zamora and Mitchell Dean draw parallels between Michel Foucault’s “History of Sexuality” and the rise of neoliberalism.
Kelly Coyne revisits "Grey Gardens."
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