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To Be Real: On Emily Nussbaum’s “Cue the Sun!”
Olivia Stowell reviews Emily Nussbaum’s “Cue the Sun! The Invention of Reality TV.”
All Reviews
Thick with Her Own Threads: On Rosalind Brown’s “Practice”
Meara Sharma reviews Rosalind Brown’s “Practice.”
Necromancer: On Frederick Seidel’s “So What”
Erick Verran reviews Frederick Seidel’s “So What.”
Heartbreak Supernova: On Carrie Courogen’s “Miss May Does Not Exist”
Tim Riley reviews Carrie Courogen’s “Miss May Does Not Exist: The Life and Work of Elaine May, Hollywood’s Hidden Genius.”
Cupcakes and Crotch Kicks: On Alex Belth’s “What Makes Sammy Jr. Run?”
Tom Zoellner considers the eternal game of cat and mouse between celebrities and journalists in Alex Belth’s “What Makes Sammy Jr. Run? Classic Celebrity Journalism Volume 1 (1960s and 1970s).”
An Excerpt from Yasmin Zaher’s “The Coin”
LARB presents an excerpt from Yasmin Zaher’s new book “The Coin.”
There Are a Lot of Hells: A Conversation with Paul Tremblay
Anna Marie Cain interviews Paul Tremblay about horror movies and his novel “Horror Movie.”
Eloquent Contentiousness: On “Farnsworth’s Classical English Argument”
Bryan Garner reviews Ward Farnsworth’s “Classical English Argument,” exposing flaws, foibles, and fallacies employed by English language writers.
House of Cards: On Sean H. Vanatta’s “Plastic Capitalism”
Carey Mott reviews Sean H. Vanatta’s “Plastic Capitalism: Banks, Credit Cards, and the End of Financial Control.”
Sacralizing Nature: On Marcelo Gleiser’s “The Dawn of a Mindful Universe”
Paolo Musso believes the work of an open-minded, bighearted scientist like Marcelo Gleiser is of paramount importance to our future.
The Man in the Ravine: On Andy McCullough’s “The Last of His Kind”
T. M. Brown reviews Andy McCullough’s “The Last of His Kind: Clayton Kershaw and the Burden of Greatness.”
Rejoice, Artists and Lawyers, at the Mutual Goal of Art and Law: On Yxta Maya Murray’s “We Make Each Other Beautiful”
Ishani Chokshi reviews Yxta Maya Murray’s latest book, “We Make Each Other Beautiful: Art, Activism, and the Law.”
Utopia Is Not a State; It Is a Compass: On Patrick Nathan’s “The Future Was Color”
Alina Stefanescu reviews Patrick Nathan’s “The Future Was Color” …
Transcendent Luminescence, Ravaging Flames: On Alexander Kriss’s “Borderline”
Mala Chatterjee reads Alexander Kriss’s “Borderline: The Biography of a Personality Disorder” in the context of her own borderline diagnosis.
A Masque of Difference and Likeness: On Michael Nott’s “Thom Gunn: A Cool Queer Life”
Daniel Swain reviews Michael Nott’s “Thom Gunn: A Cool Queer Life” …
Tell and Tell Again: On Percival Everett’s “James”
Evan Grillon reviews Percival Everett’s “James.”
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