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On “Mission: Impossible” and Unaccountable Government
With its seventh installment looming, Pat Cassels details the way the “Mission: Impossible” franchise became an unlikely chronicler of American intelligence sprawl.
All Essays
In the Mouth of Sadness: On the Erotic Bummer
Sean T. Collins and Julia Gfrörer lay out the generic terms of the erotic thriller’s morose relation, the erotic bummer.
Guns and Grammar, or How to Read the Second Amendment
Frank Bergon argues that bad grammar is driving our gun problem, via the Supreme Court’s reading of the Second Amendment.
“Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl” by Harriet Jacobs edited by Koritha Mitchell
An autobiography by Harriet Jacobs, the first formerly enslaved African American woman to publish an account of her life, in her own words. Check out our Summer 2023 pick for the LARB Book Club: “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl” by Harriet Jacobs, edited by Koritha Mitchell.
My Brother’s Ghost: On Race and Grief in Los Angeles
Nico Slate talks about his late biracial brother, the inspiration for his new book “Brothers: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Race.”
Contraction: When Hollywood Gets Smaller
J. D. Connor writes about the writers’ demands in the WGA strike in Hollywood, and about how movies about contracts relate to a downturn in production. Are we entering an era of contraction?
There’s No Such Thing as a Guilty Pleasure
Katharine Coldiron ponders why we love the bad art we love.
Building a Movement Against the War on Reproduction: Connecting with Silvia Federici
Abigail Susik speaks with feminist philosopher Silvia Federici about abortion bans, reproductive justice, and the ongoing war against women.
To Sanitize the Master’s Corpus: On the Heidegger Hoax
Richard Wolin shows how Martin Heidegger’s literary executors manipulated his manuscripts to disguise and downplay the philosopher’s antisemitism.
Studies in Heresy: On the Intimate Translations and Translated Intimacies of Bruno Schulz
Josh Billings details the challenges of translating the great Polish writer Bruno Schulz.
Where the Humanities Are Not in Crisis
Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera discusses the systemic inequities in who gets to define the “crisis” in literary studies.
Footnotes of the Avenues: An Introduction to Stephen Hilger’s “In the Alley”
Matthew Spektor analyzes the Los Angeles photography of Stephen Hilger’s “In the Alley.”
A Century of Writing Back: How Salma Khadra Jayyusi Brought Arabic Literature to the Anglophone World
Dima Ayoub describes the long and multivarious career of Palestinian author and critic Salma Khadra Jayyusi.
Foundational Anxieties, Modern Mathematics, and the Political Imagination
Massimo Mazzotti uses a forgotten episode in revolutionary Naples to demonstrate the entanglement of mathematics and politics.
I Was Determined to Remember: Harriet Jacobs and the Corporeality of Slavery’s Legacies
Koritha Mitchell discusses her research for a scholarly edition of Harriet Jacobs’s “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.”
The Future of Doctoral Education: Four Provocations for a More Just and Sustainable Academy
Stacy M. Hartman and Bianca C. Williams call for a radical reimagining of the project of graduate education.
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