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Ferkakta Wisdom: On Christopher Sorrentino’s “Now Beacon, Now Sea: A Son’s Memoir”
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The latest essays, reviews, and interviews touching on history, philosophy, religion, the hard sciences, and all the ideas that shape our world.
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Histories of Violence: Does Civil Resistance Still Work?
Bryony Lau speaks with Erica Chenoweth. A conversation in Brad Evans’s “Histories of Violence” series....
Histories of Violence: Does Civil Resistance Still Work?
Bryony Lau speaks with Erica Chenoweth. A conversation in Brad Evans’s “Histories of Violence” series....
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Jazz Not Math: On Hélène Landemore’s “Open Democracy” and Chiara Cordelli’s “The Privatized State”
Christopher Kutz evaluates "Open Democracy" by Hélène Landemore and "The Privatized State" by Chiara Cordelli....
Jazz Not Math: On Hélène Landemore’s “Open Democracy” and Chiara Cordelli’s “The Privatized State”
Christopher Kutz evaluates "Open Democracy" by Hélène Landemore and "The Privatized State" by Chiara Cordelli....
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The Comedy Divine
Reimaging Dante’s great poem 700 years after the poet’s death....
The Comedy Divine
Reimaging Dante’s great poem 700 years after the poet’s death....
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A Call to Redeem Justice
Jarrett Adams’s “Redeeming Justice” shines a light on the inequities rife in our criminal justice system....
A Call to Redeem Justice
Jarrett Adams’s “Redeeming Justice” shines a light on the inequities rife in our criminal justice system....
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Wellspring
The classic story of the child down the well played out in Southern California at the dawn of television....
Wellspring
The classic story of the child down the well played out in Southern California at the dawn of television....
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The Computer Says … What?
Reviewing “Making AI Intelligible,” Paul Dicken concludes it might be easier “to build a human that can talk to a computer, rather than the other way around.”...
The Computer Says … What?
Reviewing “Making AI Intelligible,” Paul Dicken concludes it might be easier “to build a human that can talk to a computer, rather than the other way around.”...
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The Struggle for Black Education: On Jarvis R. Givens’s “Fugitive Pedagogy”
An outstanding contribution to the history of Black education that focuses on the career of Carter G. Woodson....
The Struggle for Black Education: On Jarvis R. Givens’s “Fugitive Pedagogy”
An outstanding contribution to the history of Black education that focuses on the career of Carter G. Woodson....
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Fair Play on the Marcellus Shale
Reviewing “Up to Heaven and Down to Hell,” Jonah Walters describes the tragedy of the commons from the inside, as a member of the community in question....
Fair Play on the Marcellus Shale
Reviewing “Up to Heaven and Down to Hell,” Jonah Walters describes the tragedy of the commons from the inside, as a member of the community in question....
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When the Towers Fell
LARB presents a symposium reflecting on 9/11, curated and introduced by Brad Evans....
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BRAD EVANS, ADRIANA CAVARERO, AKEEL BILGRAMI, AYÇA ÇUBUKÇU, BRUCE ROBBINS, CAROL BECKER, DAVID THEO GOLDBERG, ELISABETH ANKER, GAYATRI CHAKRAVORTY SPIVAK, GIL ANIDJAR, HENRY A. GIROUX, JAKE CHAPMAN, LILIE CHOULIARAKI, MARK JUERGENSMEYER, MARTHA ROSLER, MICHAEL J. SHAPIRO, R. A. JUDY, RICHARD J. BERNSTEIN, ROLAND BLEIKER, SAMUEL MOYN, SAMUEL WEBER, SIMONA FORTI, SUSANNA SIEGEL, TARAK BARKAWI, TODD MAY, VINCENT BROWN, WILLIAM E. CONNOLLY
When the Towers Fell
LARB presents a symposium reflecting on 9/11, curated and introduced by Brad Evans....
Sep 11
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BRAD EVANS, ADRIANA CAVARERO, AKEEL BILGRAMI, AYÇA ÇUBUKÇU, BRUCE ROBBINS, CAROL BECKER, DAVID THEO GOLDBERG, ELISABETH ANKER, GAYATRI CHAKRAVORTY SPIVAK, GIL ANIDJAR, HENRY A. GIROUX, JAKE CHAPMAN, LILIE CHOULIARAKI, MARK JUERGENSMEYER, MARTHA ROSLER, MICHAEL J. SHAPIRO, R. A. JUDY, RICHARD J. BERNSTEIN, ROLAND BLEIKER, SAMUEL MOYN, SAMUEL WEBER, SIMONA FORTI, SUSANNA SIEGEL, TARAK BARKAWI, TODD MAY, VINCENT BROWN, WILLIAM E. CONNOLLY
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Twenty Years After “Twentynine Palms” Anticipated #MeToo
Pallavi Yetur explores the long tail of Deanne Stillman’s “Twentynine Palms,” on the 1991 murder of two young women in the Mojave....
Twenty Years After “Twentynine Palms” Anticipated #MeToo
Pallavi Yetur explores the long tail of Deanne Stillman’s “Twentynine Palms,” on the 1991 murder of two young women in the Mojave....
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The Bigoted Roots of Epidemiology
In reviewing “Maladies of Empire,” John Galbraith Simmons shows how an understanding of colonial medicine and slavery needs to better inform our present....
The Bigoted Roots of Epidemiology
In reviewing “Maladies of Empire,” John Galbraith Simmons shows how an understanding of colonial medicine and slavery needs to better inform our present....
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The Promise and Perils of the Academic Social Contract
Sophie Duvernoy takes stock of “Allies and Rivals,” Emily J. Levine’s history of the modern research university....
The Promise and Perils of the Academic Social Contract
Sophie Duvernoy takes stock of “Allies and Rivals,” Emily J. Levine’s history of the modern research university....
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“Gathered Fitfully from My Own Memory”: On Józef Czapski’s “Memories of Starobielsk”
A collection of essays on the Polish experience in World War II by Józef Czapski, translated by Alissa Valles....
“Gathered Fitfully from My Own Memory”: On Józef Czapski’s “Memories of Starobielsk”
A collection of essays on the Polish experience in World War II by Józef Czapski, translated by Alissa Valles....
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Not Your Freak
Shawna Kenney explores a case of mistaken identity in the 1984–’85 hunt for the Night Stalker in California....
Not Your Freak
Shawna Kenney explores a case of mistaken identity in the 1984–’85 hunt for the Night Stalker in California....
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An Innocent Abroad: Joan Didion’s Midlife Crisis
Because of her failure to see beyond the world that raised her, Didion almost wasted two decades of literary production....
An Innocent Abroad: Joan Didion’s Midlife Crisis
Because of her failure to see beyond the world that raised her, Didion almost wasted two decades of literary production....
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Written Up: A Personal History
An author fictionalized in his own father’s novels reflects on fictionalizing his kids....
Written Up: A Personal History
An author fictionalized in his own father’s novels reflects on fictionalizing his kids....
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The Gay Panopticon: On Remigiusz Ryziński’s “Foucault in Warsaw”
Foucault’s legendary stay in Cold War Warsaw becomes an origin story for the gay community in postwar Poland....
The Gay Panopticon: On Remigiusz Ryziński’s “Foucault in Warsaw”
Foucault’s legendary stay in Cold War Warsaw becomes an origin story for the gay community in postwar Poland....
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