LARB Quarterly, no. 45: Submission

This summer, we’re giving in—without giving up. LARB Quarterly no. 45: Submission is out now, with all new essays, interviews, short fiction, poetry, and art reexamining the complex conditions of power (or a lack thereof). Join today to get your copy.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Features
The Denny’s on Wilshire Boulevard by Alexander Chee
Unhappily Ever After: Anora and Martha by Tal Rosenberg

Nonfiction
Never a Patient Woman: Shulamith Firestone’s pockets of faith by Emmeline Clein
Feds Watching: B.G. and rap on supervised release by Jack Lubin
Incendiary: Living and grieving among California’s gasoline trees by Charley Burlock
The Subtle Art of Survival: On myths, motherhood, and the mind by Elizabeth Rush
Taste Test: The aesthetic nightmare of amateur porn by Cory Bradshaw

Interviews
Life Takes Over: A Nobel laureate on colonial history and contemporary literature Abdulrazak Gurnah with Samuel Rutter
What Persists, What Remains: Documentary as form and photographing in L.A. Andrew Witt with Nathan Crompton, featuring art by Gregory Halpern, Anthony Hernandez, and John Divola

Fiction
The Opera Singer by Dashiel Carrera
Macchiato by A. Cerisse Cohen
The Party by Erin Taylor
Confirmations by Chiara Bercu

Translation
Broken Echoes: An excerpt from Where the Sun Sets by Olena Pshenychna by Marta Gosovska

Excerpt
From Misery of Love by Yvan Alagbé, translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith

Poetry
From “The Ball of the Bald” (5) and (6) by Farnoosh Fathi
The Green by Paula Bohince
Future Perfect by John James
Gymnasium by Caitlyn Klum
Strange freedom of the dog by Sawako Nakayasu
Implications by Harryette Mullen

Art
Talia Chetrit
Carla Williams