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Leah Umansky’s “Ars Poetica: The Thing Is …”
Leah Umansky offers a treatise on living among nature, in a poem from LARB Quarterly no. 46: “Alien.”
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Two Poems by Rickey Laurentiis
Rickey Laurentiis dissects identity and gender in two poems from LARB Quarterly no. 46: “Alien.”
Nico Amador’s “Adams”
Nico Amador traces abandoned lineages, in a poem from LARB Quarterly no. 46: “Alien.”
From aracelis girmay’s “The Dog”
In a poem from LARB Quarterly no. 46: “Alien,” aracelis girmay encounters the self as a wild animal.
Timothy Donnelly’s “To the Alien”
Timothy Donnelly imagines the daunting task of encapsulating humanity’s woes, in a poem from LARB Quarterly no. 46: “Alien.”
Jeremy Ra’s “Janis Carter Lives in Gambia for Years to Rehabilitate Lucy the Chimp Back into the Wild”
Jeremy Ra inhabits the conflicted mind of chimpanzee caretaker Janis Carter in a poem from LARB Quarterly no. 46: “Alien.”
Unsettled Enough
Nitish Pahwa unravels the legal and familial complexities of statelessness in an essay from LARB Quarterly no. 46: “Alien.”
Indecent Disposal: FCC and the Censoring of Late-Night
Deborah L. Jaramillo looks at the relationship between the FCC and the television industry over time.
Making a Killing
Mikkel Krause Frantzen discusses the future of the financial thriller in an era of cryptocurrencies and climate crisis.
From “To the Madhouse: A Novel”
Robert Rubsam offers a portrait of the artist as a lonely man, in an excerpt featured in the LARB Quarterly, no. 46: “Alien.”
Against the Wound
Jake Romm navigates artistic depictions of genocide and religious violence—some illuminating, others devoid of substance—from Renaissance Italy to modern-day Berlin, in an essay from LARB Quarterly no. 46: “Alien.”
The Grove
Tajja Isen reminisces on the extra-retail therapies of childhood trips to The Grove in the newest installment of I Come Here Often, from LARB Quarterly no. 46: “Alien.”
Does One Size Fit All?
In the 10th essay in the Legacies of Eugenics series, Jay S. Kaufman shows how the science of human body size is suffused with cultural assumptions.
The Ruins of Utopia
Melissa Chadburn explores the history of the Llano del Rio Cooperative Colony through the writings of Aldous Huxley.
Vous écoutez RFI
Anna Gaca finally understands French, in a preview of LARB Quarterly no. 46: “Alien.”
The Lucas Museum and the Question of Narrative Art
Leo Braudy proposes a historical and aesthetic rationale for George Lucas’s Museum of Narrative Art.
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