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<div class="at-above-post-homepage addthis_tool" data-url="https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/interviews/theres-theory-ive-got-cooking-interview-john-rossiter-young-jesus/"></div><p><em>Los Angeles-based alt-rock band Young Jesus has been through many iterations; it started as a high school band in the suburbs of Chicago, did a Red Bull-</em><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPRtDu1Fw4U"><em>sponsored tour</em></a><em>, went acoustic for an album, and then transformed into its current formation. A band of far-out sounds, 10-minute-plus songs that could be described as soundscapes, and live shows full of improvisation, Young Jesus resonates as both expansive and personal.</em> <a href="https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/interviews/theres-theory-ive-got-cooking-interview-john-rossiter-young-jesus/#more-5334" class="more-link">Read more</a></p>
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There’s a Theory I’ve Got Cooking: An Interview with John Rossiter of Young Jesus

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<div class="at-above-post-homepage addthis_tool" data-url="https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/essays/star-wars-prequels-politically-relevant-thing-trump-era/"></div><p>In December 2015, with primary season about to begin, all eyes were on Donald Trump’s rise. That same month, <em>Star Wars</em>: <em>The Force Awakens </em>hit theaters worldwide, the first of four new <em>Star Wars-</em>related films in a span of three years. A month after Trump’s win, <em>Rogue One </em>was released, which debuted the prophetic line, “rebellions are built on hope.” The end of Trump’s first year will welcome the release of <em>The Last Jedi</em>, and the end of the second by the 2018 release of the yet-untitled Han Solo film. Future historians will be able to trace a timeline between these new <em>Star Wars </em>movies and the state of the Trump administration. <a href="https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/essays/star-wars-prequels-politically-relevant-thing-trump-era/#more-4461" class="more-link">Read more</a></p>
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The <em>Star Wars</em> Prequels are the Most Politically Relevant Thing in the Trump Era

The Star Wars Prequels are the Most Politically Relevant Thing in the Trump Era

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<div class="at-above-post-homepage addthis_tool" data-url="https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/interviews/stories-like-bullet-interview-osama-alomar/"></div><p><em>Who among us is not spending most of her time trying to understand the complexities of the times? How can we even begin to grapple with it all? Is comprehension even possible? Osama Alomar’s very short stories (or in Arabic, “al-qisa al-qasira jiddan”) do not offer answers. What they do provide is a necessary reminder of the importance of protecting the human spirit — a worthy touchstone, when confronting darkness.</em> <a href="https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/interviews/stories-like-bullet-interview-osama-alomar/#more-3933" class="more-link">Read more</a></p>
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Stories Like a Bullet: An Interview with Osama Alomar

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<div class="at-above-post-homepage addthis_tool" data-url="https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/interviews/text-text-interview-mauro-javier-cardenas/"></div><p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mauro Javier Cardenas’ formally experimental debut novel </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Revolutionaries Try Again, </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">out September 6th from Coffee House House Press, probes the question of whether or not a novel should even be concerned with narrative. It suggests that, instead, it is the depiction of our internal minds that matters. An Ecuadorian expat who lives in San Francisco returns to Ecuador to attempt a run at the presidency with his friends from high school. But what follows is not a tale of political hijinx, it is an exploration into the interiors of the characters as they navigate their dark, cold worlds.</span></i> <a href="https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/interviews/text-text-interview-mauro-javier-cardenas/#more-2467" class="more-link">Read more</a></p>
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Text is Text: An Interview with Mauro Javier Cardenas

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<div class="at-above-post-homepage addthis_tool" data-url="https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/essays/nell-zink-private-novelist/"></div><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mark my words: it is no coincidence that </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Private Novelist</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">’s publication coincides with the second day of Rosh Hashanah, when we Jews celebrate the new year and look towards </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Yom Kippur, when we will ask our old-testament-God for forgiveness. Nell Zink may or may not have dreamed up, planned out, and been the mastermind behind this non-coincidence. That </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Private Novelist</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is being</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> released alongside her new novel </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Nicotine</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> perhaps points to a larger conspiracy orchestrated by Ecco and HarperCollins’ — a collusion, if you will, designed to sell more books. But why give all the credit to some marketing department, when it might be Judaism we have to thank?</span> <a href="https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/essays/nell-zink-private-novelist/#more-2247" class="more-link">Read more</a></p>
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Nell Zink, Member of the Tribe

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A Millennial’s Purgatory: On Joy Williams’s “Harrow”

"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." — Mark Twain

Fiction

The Stories Silicon Valley Tells Itself in Order to Live: A Conversation with Anna Wiener

"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein

Science &amp; Technology

"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf

Memoir &amp; Essay

Jeffrey Epstein Is a Feature of Our System: A Conversation with Liz Franczak and Brace Belden, Hosts of “Trueanon”

"You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to." — Molly Ivins

Politics

McDonald’s as America: A Conversation with Chris Arnade

"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa

Art &amp; Architecture

"Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors." — Simone Weil

Cultural Studies

Cover Design in Dangerous Times: An Interview with Peter Mendelsund

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