All Essays

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  Life Lived On Screen: Philosophical, Poetic, and Political Observations

  Tobis Rees considers the implications of a life lived on screen

  Tobias ReesAug 2, 2020
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  FOUND SCORE (in and out of place )

  cross the street when / you see people coming / come together and / rise up in the streets

  Gabrielle CivilAug 2, 2020

• 3.20.20 – 5.6.20

  Mandy Harris Williams uses Instagram and Twitter to interrogate online behavior and personal value systems.

  Aug 2, 2020

• Everyday Worlding

  Tui Shaub illuminates the challenge of technology replicating the the experience of art in person

  Aug 2, 2020

• Virtual Infrastructures, Community Engagements

  Meldia Yesayan urges us to explore virtual art opportunities.

  Aug 2, 2020

• Embracing the Radical Uncertainty of Part-Machines

  Nancy Baker Cahill considers the possibilities of empathy in the digital era

  Aug 2, 2020

• Kicked by a Mosquito

  Gelare Khoshgozaran explores the pandemic's impact on human relationships.

  Aug 2, 2020
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  Later Date

  Lauren Lee McCarthy examines how "later" has taken on new importance.

  Lauren Lee McCarthyAug 2, 2020
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  Teaching Artists in a Pandemic

  How to teach art during a pandemic

  Rob ReynoldsAug 2, 2020

• An Ethic of Caring Beyond the Human

  Anuradha Vikram on a new way of caring

  Anuradha VikramAug 2, 2020

• Old Technologies, New Embodiments / Queer Science: On Virtual Touching

  A slideshow by artist Jennifer Moon

  Jennifer MoonAug 2, 2020
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  Brokering Suitability: On "Indian Matchmaking"

  Rijuta Mehta considers the reality TV tropes, documentary pretense, and pervasive purity politics of Netflix's newest dating show.

  Rijuta MehtaJul 31, 2020

  • Television

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  Real Life Rock Top 10: July 2020

  LARB presents the July installment of “Real Life Rock Top 10,” a monthly column by cultural critic Greil Marcus.

  Greil MarcusJul 31, 2020

  • History

  • Music

  • Politics

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  What Flowers Are We Watering? On Black Girls and “The Bluest Eye”’s Enduring Resonance

  Stacie McCormick looks into “The Bluest Eye” and considers why it still resonates today.

  Stacie McCormickJul 30, 2020

  • Fiction

• Stake Not the Undead: Vampires in the 2020s

  Karina Wilson traces the lineage and history of the vampire story and considers why it is more relevant (and marketable) than ever before.

  Karina WilsonJul 30, 2020

  • Fiction

  • Film

  • SF

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  “Breasts and Eggs” by Mieko Kawakami

  Three women, each on their own journey to overcome burdens both personal and political. Check out our Summer 2020 pick for the LARB Book Club: “Breasts and Eggs” by Mieko Kawakami, translated from the Japanese by Sam Bett and David Boyd.

  Jul 28, 2020