On the cusp of adulthood, Harvard freshman Selin navigates the uncertainty of self-discovery and invention in a novel that is both hilarious and wise. Check out our Spring 2017 pick for the LARB Book Club: “The Idiot” by Elif Batuman.
Tope Folarin looks at Ngugi wa Thiong'o's "Devil on the Cross," which is being reissued this month by Penguin.
Molly Larkey reflects on the lessons of Occupy and Standing Rock.
Chris Fink talks to Helene Cooper about her new biography of the first democratically elected female head of state in Africa.
Has the Showtime series finally changed its ways? Brian T. Edwards finds out.
Should we have trepidations about epigenetic modifications? Professor Michael Bess on the potentially destabilizing effect of bioenhancement.
“Ovarian Psycos” and “Antibirth” take up the biology of the feminized body, but anatomy doesn’t determine their politics.
Visionary SF writer Paul Scheerbart was obsessed by the role creativity plays in scientific discovery, as well as creative applications of scientific ideas.
Roger Berkowitz reviews Hannah Arendt’s landmark “The Origins of Totalitarianism,” framing the book within the context of contemporary politics.
Why does Maren Ade end "Toni Erdmann" where she does?
Learn rage and to reconnect that rage to the joy of its expression.
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