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The Inconvenient Scholarship of Kevin Roberts
Samuel G. Freedman traces the long and contradictory intellectual journey of the man behind Project 2025.
All Essays
Bourgeois Dreams, Black Rebellion
In an excerpt from “The Black Utopians,” Aaron Robertson writes on the early years of Albert Cleage Jr. and Detroit’s Black bourgeoisie.
Imagine More for Women
Caroline Reilly discusses how Scandinavian women writers have become known for a more complex kind of crime fiction.
How Democrats Can Win Back Rural America
Tom Zoellner searches for solutions to the Democratic Party’s “rural problem.”
Weird Nonfiction
Clayton Purdom situates nonfictional works designed “with the intention of upsetting, disturbing, or confusing the audience,” in an essay from the LARB Quarterly issue no. 42, “Gossip.”
John E. Mack and the Unbelievable UFO Truth
Michael J. Socolow looks back at the controversial career of John E. Mack, the Pulitzer Prize–winning Harvard psychiatrist who wrote best-selling books on UFO abduction.
Why (Re)translation Matters
Paul Reitter discusses the aesthetic and cultural value of “retranslating” classic texts.
The DNA Dreams of the New Eugenics
In the fourth essay of the Legacies of Eugenics series, Patricia Williams explores how “new-genics” projects encode social bias.
Scored in the Key of Leisure
LARB presents an excerpt from Dorothy’s upcoming reissue of Renee Gladman’s “To After That (TOAF).”
What, Then, Is Natural?
Obi Kaufmann considers the coming of the modern megafire and many misconceptions about California’s land, in an excerpt from “The State of Fire.”
Coercion
In an excerpt from “By the Fire We Carry,” Rebecca Nagle explores the concept of “allotment”—and its repercussions.
Gathering Intelligence: Chelsea Manning, the War on Terror, and the Trans Internet
Charlie Markbreiter analyzes Chelsea Manning as era-defining symbol, internet darling, and enemy of the state, in an essay from the LARB Quarterly issue no. 42, “Gossip.”
I … Am Herman Melville!
Sam Weller details the tempestuous collaboration of Ray Bradbury and John Huston on the production of the 1956 movie “Moby Dick.”
Meteor, Star, Galaxy, Caven
LARB presents a new essay by Erika Balsom, excerpted from Fireflies Press’s edited collection “Ingrid Caven: I Am a Fiction,” publishing this September.
Talk
Kristen Radtke defends Linda Rosenkrantz’s underappreciated classic novel “Talk,” in a comic from the LARB Quarterly issue no. 42, “Gossip.”
Notes on Disappearing: A Life in Fragments
Veronica Gonzalez Peña explores fragmented memories of a childhood, in light of the 2014 murder of 43 Mexican students, in a story from the LARB Quarterly issue no. 42, “Gossip.”
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