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GROUP CHAT: Group Chats
For the LARB Quarterly issue no. 42, “Gossip,” our editors started a group chat on group chats.
All Essays
In Bloom
Elena Megalos scrolls Instagram for images of a relationship that might have been, in an essay from the LARB Quarterly issue no. 42, “Gossip.”
Freudulence
Jamieson Webster invokes Sigmund Freud and Ambassador William C. Bullitt in an attempt to psychoanalyze political leaders, in an essay from the LARB Quarterly issue no. 42, “Gossip.”
Totalitarian Gigantomania
Tim Brinkhof explores the poetics and politics of the cruise-ship essay.
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.
Who Edu Was
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.”
Breeding for IQ
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.
Election Desk 2024: Unquiet Spirits
Heather Kenny takes the temperature around the DNC in the first dispatch from LARB’s Election Desk.
Stupidity for Dummies
Aaron Schuster explores the intersection of Flaubert, language, and ChatGPT in an essay from the LARB Quarterly issue no. 42, “Gossip.”
Two New Poems: “Of Beauty” and “Mental”
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.”
What Were These Women to Me?
Ruth Madievsky closes the gate on her college rumor mill in a personal essay from the LARB Quarterly issue no. 42, “Gossip.”
Pornography
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.”
Gossip as a Literary Genre, or Gossip as “L’Écriture feminine”?
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.”
TrimSpa, Baby
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.”
From Circle to Square
Benjamin Nathans revisits the 1968 suppression of the Prague Spring from the perspective of the Soviet dissident movement.
May the Best Story Win
Zoe Mendelson tells herself gossip in order to live in an online-only exclusive from the LARB Quarterly issue no. 42.
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