LARB Quarterly, no. 48: 15th Anniversary Issue

Our 15th anniversary anthology is not meant to be exhaustive, or the “best of the best,” but rather representative of a certain LARBiness—that combination of critical attention and Los Angeles ease. Join today to receive the issue.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Literature & the Humanities

The Humanities Are Worth Fighting For by Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado
There Is No Point in My Being Other Than Honest with You by Melina Moe
Fuck the Poetry Police by Dan Sinykin
I'm Looking to Jump Ship Sooner Than I Should by Percival Everett with Ayize Jama-Everett
Modernism and Mimesis by Amit Chaudhuri
Sharing Speech by Robin Myers
My Palestinian Poem that The New Yorker Wouldn’t Publish by Fady Joudah
Everyone’s a Critic by Richard Joseph

Arts & Culture

“Carl Broke Something” by Maya Gurantz
American Psychos by Philippa Snow
No, Time to Die by Brendan Boyle and Adam Nayman
Going Rogue by Joseph Giovannini
Fitful Glimpses and Spurts by Katie Kadue
Magritte in Koreatown by Bonnie Johnson

Politics

Fear and Writing in Xinjiang by Benno Weiner
Palestine Is a Story Away by Mosab Abu Toha
A Lovely Grave for Learning by Alexa Hagerty
The Most Moral Army by Mary Turfah
Trump l’Oeil by Gideon Jacobs
Why the Supreme Court Is Not to Be Trusted by Laurie L. Levenson

Science & Technology

Quarantine Files by Lauren Berlant, Simon Critchley, Saidiya Hartman, McKenzie Wark
How Anecdotes Sell Drugs by Andrew Scull
Life Is More than an Engineering Problem by Ted Chiang with Julien Crockett
The New Artificial Intelligentsia by Ruha Benjamin

Theory & Criticism

When Philosophy Stopped the Traffic in New York City by Alexandre Lefebvre
A Trapdoor of Her Own by Emmeline Clein
Lush, Reciprocal Entanglements by Manjula Martin
Moving Towards Life by Marina Magloire

Poetry

An Excerpt from The World Per Se by Jane Mead
Forgiveness by Cathy Linh Che
waiting on you to die so i can be myself by Danez Smith
The Warrior is a Woman by Tina Chang
Cotton Wool Twist in the Neck of the Season by Sandra Lim
High and Posh by Maggie Millner
Third Act by Tamara Nassar
Euphoric Recall in 80s Vintage Armani by K Iver