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We Killed the Right Animal
Nate Rogers revisits Larry McMurtry’s barn burner “Lonesome Dove,” which turned 40 this year and is experiencing a renaissance.
All Essays
Taste Test
Cory Bradshaw describes the art and agony involved in making amateur porn in an essay for LARB Quarterly no. 45: “Submission.”
Harryette Mullen’s “Implications”
The LARB Quarterly no. 45, “Submission,” presents a new poem by Harryette Mullen.
Sawako Nakayasu’s “Strange freedom of the dog”
The LARB Quarterly no. 45, “Submission,” presents a new poem by Sawako Nakayasu.
Caitlyn Klum’s “Gymnasium”
The LARB Quarterly no. 45, “Submission,” presents a new poem by Caitlyn Klum.
A Trumped-Up Spectacle
James Chandler considers what Roland Barthes’s famous essay about wrestling can tell us about reality and shared illusion in Donald Trump’s Washington.
John James’s “Future Perfect”
The LARB Quarterly no. 45, “Submission,” presents a new poem by John James.
Paula Bohince’s “The Green”
The LARB Quarterly no. 45, “Submission,” presents a new poem by Paula Bohince.
Farnoosh Fathi’s “The Ball of the Bald,” (5) and (6)
The LARB Quarterly no. 45, “Submission,” presents two new poems by Farnoosh Fathi.
Murderous Genes and Criminal Brains
In the ninth essay in the Legacies of Eugenics series, Oliver Rollins explores how the new biology of crime opens a backdoor to eugenics.
Incendiary
Charley Burlock interrogates the myths surrounding wildfires, grief, and California's supposed “gasoline trees” in an essay from LARB Quarterly no. 45: “Submission.”
Feds Watching
Jack Lubin considers state censorship and New Orleans rapper B.G.’s album “Freedom of Speech,” in a preview of LARB Quarterly no. 45: “Submission.”
Cracked, Costly Fantasies
Dan O’Sullivan traces the legacy of right-wing ideologies in California.
Fear, Loathing
Yousef Srour traces the abstraction of death in post-9/11 America.
Politics as Usual
Mary Turfah writes on Iran.
Never a Patient Woman
Emmeline Clein finds pockets of faith in feminist writer Shulamith Firestone's ostensibly airless spaces in an essay from LARB Quarterly no. 45: “Submission.”
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