True Believer
Sadie Sartini Garner recalls a Nine Inch Nails concert from the year 2000 and wonders where those she stood shoulder to shoulder with have gone.
Sadie Sartini Garner recalls a Nine Inch Nails concert from the year 2000 and wonders where those she stood shoulder to shoulder with have gone.
Sanaë Lemoine assembles the fickle pieces of one particularly elusive man’s identity in a short story from the LARB Quarterly issue no. 42, “Gossip.”
Emily R. Klancher Merchant examines the growing enthusiasm among tech elites for genetically engineering their children, in the third essay of the Legacies of Eugenics series.
Heather Kenny takes the temperature around the DNC in the first dispatch from LARB’s Election Desk.
Aaron Schuster explores the intersection of Flaubert, language, and ChatGPT in an essay from the LARB Quarterly issue no. 42, “Gossip.”
David St. John and Andrea Werblin Reid consider speech acts in their various complexities in two poems from the LARB Quarterly issue no. 42, “Gossip.”
Ruth Madievsky closes the gate on her college rumor mill in a personal essay from the LARB Quarterly issue no. 42, “Gossip.”
Rhian Sasseen depicts the relationship between a lonely man and his phone—one that takes a sudden, surreal turn—in a short story from the LARB Quarterly issue no. 42, “Gossip.”
Francesca Peacock roots through the archives for a deeper understanding of scandal and speech in an essay from the LARB Quarterly issue no. 42, “Gossip.”
Emmeline Clein recounts an “American Icarus story” spelled out in diet pills and rhinestones in an essay from the LARB Quarterly issue no. 42, “Gossip.”
Benjamin Nathans revisits the 1968 suppression of the Prague Spring from the perspective of the Soviet dissident movement.
Zoe Mendelson tells herself gossip in order to live in an online-only exclusive from the LARB Quarterly issue no. 42.
Exploring the correspondence of June Jordan and Audre Lorde, Marina Magloire assembles an archive of a Black feminist falling-out over Zionism.
In the second essay of the Legacies of Eugenics series, Aubrey Clayton excavates the troubling correlation between the birth of statistical methods and the history of eugenics.
Lina Abascal reports from the Eurovision Song Contest in Malmö, Sweden.
Jess Libow explores how disabled writers have taken up Frida Kahlo’s image and legacy.