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He Loved Everyone in Trinidad: On Martin J. Smith’s “Going to Trinidad”
A Colorado doctor put his town on the map for gender confirmation surgery. The town didn’t celebrate it....
He Loved Everyone in Trinidad: On Martin J. Smith’s “Going to Trinidad”
A Colorado doctor put his town on the map for gender confirmation surgery. The town didn’t celebrate it....
The Art of Captivity: Luchita Hurtado
Illuminating conversations with a major L.A.-based Venezuelan-American female artist....
The Art of Captivity: Luchita Hurtado
Illuminating conversations with a major L.A.-based Venezuelan-American female artist....
Why (and How) August Wilson Marginalized White Antagonism: A Note for Hollywood Producers
Miles P. Grier examines how Hollywood has snuck white people into the center of August Wilson’s explorations of Black life, most recently in “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.”...
Why (and How) August Wilson Marginalized White Antagonism: A Note for Hollywood Producers
Miles P. Grier examines how Hollywood has snuck white people into the center of August Wilson’s explorations of Black life, most recently in “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.”...
Embracing the Break*
Taylor Renee Aldridge on the “break” and finding the unexpected intersection of spiritual ecstasies in the pentecostal faith of her childhood and queer nightlife spaces....
Embracing the Break*
Taylor Renee Aldridge on the “break” and finding the unexpected intersection of spiritual ecstasies in the pentecostal faith of her childhood and queer nightlife spaces....
Celebrating L.A. Composers: A Conversation with Hugh Levick
The director of the HEAR NOW music festival in Los Angeles talks about the upcoming 2021 all-virtual event....
Celebrating L.A. Composers: A Conversation with Hugh Levick
The director of the HEAR NOW music festival in Los Angeles talks about the upcoming 2021 all-virtual event....
Burning Down the House: On the Operatic Impulses of “Promising Young Woman”
Olivia Giovetti explores the operatic roots and resonances in the film “Promising Young Woman.”...
Burning Down the House: On the Operatic Impulses of “Promising Young Woman”
Olivia Giovetti explores the operatic roots and resonances in the film “Promising Young Woman.”...
On Lives and Counterlives
Two solid biographies of the late Philip Roth, one authorized, one not....
On Lives and Counterlives
Two solid biographies of the late Philip Roth, one authorized, one not....
Negotiating the Generic Closet in the Writers' Room
In an excerpt from The Generic Closet: Black Gayness and the Black-Cast Sitcom, Alfred L. Martin Jr. explores the politics of writers' rooms....
Negotiating the Generic Closet in the Writers' Room
In an excerpt from The Generic Closet: Black Gayness and the Black-Cast Sitcom, Alfred L. Martin Jr. explores the politics of writers' rooms....
The Game of Critique
Andrew Fleshman reviews Patrick Jagoda’s “Experimental Games.”...
The Game of Critique
Andrew Fleshman reviews Patrick Jagoda’s “Experimental Games.”...
Highsmith Was a Troll: On Richard Bradford’s “Devils, Lusts and Strange Desires”
Maria Rybakova plumbs the depths of “Devils, Lusts and Strange Desires. The Life of Patricia Highsmith” by Richard Bradford....
Highsmith Was a Troll: On Richard Bradford’s “Devils, Lusts and Strange Desires”
Maria Rybakova plumbs the depths of “Devils, Lusts and Strange Desires. The Life of Patricia Highsmith” by Richard Bradford....
Close Magic: Derek DelGaudio's Illusions of Other People
For Dear Television, Phillip Maciak sobs his way through the magic of pre-pandemic closeness in Derek DelGaudio's Hulu film In and Of Itself....
Close Magic: Derek DelGaudio's Illusions of Other People
For Dear Television, Phillip Maciak sobs his way through the magic of pre-pandemic closeness in Derek DelGaudio's Hulu film In and Of Itself....
The Traffic in Images
“Art Isn’t Fair” integrates Allan Sekula’s photographic projects with his writings on art....
The Traffic in Images
“Art Isn’t Fair” integrates Allan Sekula’s photographic projects with his writings on art....
Real Life Rock Top 10: March 2021
LARB presents the March installment of “Real Life Rock Top 10,” a monthly column by cultural critic Greil Marcus....
Real Life Rock Top 10: March 2021
LARB presents the March installment of “Real Life Rock Top 10,” a monthly column by cultural critic Greil Marcus....
Remember the Bread
A major Yugoslav scholar examines the way the bread we eat becomes a vehicle for human relations....
Remember the Bread
A major Yugoslav scholar examines the way the bread we eat becomes a vehicle for human relations....
A Very Acute Watcher: A Conversation with David Thomson
Jonathan Kirshner interviews David Thomson on his book “A Light in the Dark: A History of Movie Directors.”...
A Very Acute Watcher: A Conversation with David Thomson
Jonathan Kirshner interviews David Thomson on his book “A Light in the Dark: A History of Movie Directors.”...
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