All Essays

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  We Can Be Heroes: The Winter Poetry Olympics Part X: Skinsuit

  Michael HealdFeb 21, 2014

• Russian Fiction: A Reading List

  Required reading on the occasion of the Sochi Olympics

  Emily HuntFeb 20, 2014
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  The Tumblrst Tumbl Ever Tumbld: or, How I Found the Angel of History Trapped on the Flypaper of Social Media

  A mild discussion of Tumblr-porn, its many incarnations, and the one image that captures modern technological life.

  Dominic PettmanFeb 20, 2014
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  The Post-Racialism of Clarence Thomas

  To understand Clarence Thomas’s post-racialism, you need to understand Savannah, Georgia first.

  John StoehrFeb 20, 2014

• We Can Be Heroes: The Winter Poetry Olympics Part VIII: Curling and the Poetics of Friction

  Lytton SmithFeb 20, 2014
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  Mentors: John Grisham

  Tony Vanderwarker writes about being mentored by John Grisham for two years.

  Tony VanderwarkerFeb 19, 2014

• We Can Be Heroes: The Winter Poetry Olympics Part VII: On Curling as Poetic Line

  LARB returns with a sequel to its “Poetry at the Olympics” series, featuring poets from across America responding to the Winter Olympics at Sochi.

  Lytton SmithFeb 18, 2014

• How Twelve Years a Slave was made, 150 years before "12 Years a Slave"

  Heidi KimFeb 17, 2014
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  Forms of Cosmopolitanism

  The 150th birthday of Greek poet Constantine P. Cavafy has many celebrating, and debating, his legacy.

  Karen Van DyckFeb 16, 2014

  • Literary Criticism

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  The British Invasion: Not Quite Memoir

  Judith KitchenFeb 15, 2014
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  We Can Be Heroes: The Winter Poetry Olympics Part VI: Russia’s Religious Minorities in the “time intolerable” of Osip Mandelstam

  LARB returns with a sequel to its “Poetry at the Olympics” series, featuring poets from across America responding to the Winter Olympics at Sochi.

  Win BassettFeb 15, 2014
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  We Can Be Heroes: The Winter Poetry Olympics Part V: On Skeleton and Skeletonists

  LARB returns with a sequel to its “Poetry at the Olympics” series, featuring poets from across America responding to the Winter Olympics at Sochi.

  Lynn MelnickFeb 15, 2014
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  Letter to the Editor: Response to Andrew Robinson’s “When Tokyo Shook, Burned Down, and Rose Again.”

  Andrew Robinson, J. Charles SchenckingFeb 14, 2014
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  Let the Flowers Speak to the Love Stuff

  Erika RecordonFeb 14, 2014
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  Valentines

  Love letters to the best poetry of 2013

  Alan Michael Parker, Farid Matuk, Michael Klein, Randall Mann, Rebecca Hazelton, Terrance Hayes, Tina Chang, Wayne MillerFeb 14, 2014
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  On the Kinds of Love We Fall Into: Polyamory in Theory and Practice

  The lesson of the TV shows and movies, of the myths and magazines, is that fidelity isn’t only a part of love — in some sense, it is love, the only real kind, anyway.

  Emmett RensinFeb 14, 2014