Scatterings
After his wife tragically dies in a canoeing accident, Gary Ferguson returns her ashes to the wilderness.
All Reviews
Ambivalence and the Cosmic Subconsciousness
In the latest LARB illustrated book review, Laura Kenins reviews Inés Estrada’s “Lapsos.”
Present and Accounted For: On James Harvey’s Watching Them Be
Harvey convinces us, for nearly 300 pages, that the book is about the stars themselves when it is in fact about the process of watching them.
Fictional Forays to a Familiarly Exotic China
There are enough horrors in China’s past to sate any reader’s appetite.
Politics and Pool in Providence
J.J. Partridge keeps "the new new and the familiar familiar, while inhabiting the setting with the idiosyncrasy of real life and changing times."
Say No!
Carlene Bauer on Darcey Steinke’s 'Sister Golden Hair'
The Philosophy of Pugilistic Spectacle
Howley's book is not meant to convert anyone to the beauties of mixed martial arts (though it may).
Aristocrats of “Merit”
Tyler Cowen’s "Average Is Over"
All the Broken People
Bryan Stevenson wants more justice, more mercy, and more hope for all of them.
Say That Again? Making Sense of Noise
Contributor Lawrence English on Greg Hainge’s "Noise Matters: Towards an Ontology of Noise" and "Hillel Schwartz’s Making Noise: From Babel to the Big Bang and Beyond"
Second Acts: A Second Look at Second Books of Poetry by Peter Streckfus and Jean Valentine
Everybody talks about first books. Second books are more interesting.
The Symbol Is Dead, Long Live the Symbolic
According to Warren Breckman, revolutionary romantic philosophers such as Slavoj Žižek are practicing a form of “Christian-bolshevism” that has lost its way.
The Letters of Gary Snyder and Wendell Berry
Reaching out from their individual perspectives, Berry and Snyder consider the world from each other’s viewpoint with startling vulnerability.
Every Which Way but Loose
Accelerationism is picking up speed as a new way to challenge the dominant system.
My Father the Superspy
Ha Jin's novel moves beyond the ideological certainties of typical Cold War spy novels.
Summer of 1972
Pat Verducci on "If I Knew You Were Going to Be This Beautiful, I Never Would Have Let You Go."
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