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Most Read of 2024
We’re rounding up your favorite pieces from this year.
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Moving Towards Life
Exploring the correspondence of June Jordan and Audre Lorde, Marina Magloire assembles an archive of a Black feminist falling-out over Zionism.
There Is No Point in My Being Other Than Honest with You: On Toni Morrison’s Rejection Letters
Melina Moe writes about the rejection letters Toni Morrison sent as an editor at Random House.
What Happened to David Graeber?
Crispin Sartwell argues that the Occupy leader seemed to be moving from anarchism to liberalism before his death.
Viewing the Ob-scene: On Jonathan Glazer’s “The Zone of Interest”
David Hering reviews Jonathan Glazer’s film “The Zone of Interest.”
Weird Nonfiction
Clayton Purdom situates nonfictional works designed “with the intention of upsetting, disturbing, or confusing the audience,” in an essay from the LARB Quarterly issue no. 42, “Gossip.”
The Crisis of Classical Studies: On Mary Beard’s “Emperor of Rome”
Edward Watts reviews Mary Beard’s “Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World.”
The Failed Saint: On George Orwell’s India
Jason Christian visits George Orwell’s birthplace in India.
The New Artificial Intelligentsia
In the fifth essay of the Legacies of Eugenics series, Ruha Benjamin explores how AI evangelists wrap their self-interest in a cloak of humanistic concern.
Standing on the Cliff of Motherhood: On Miranda July’s “All Fours”
Jenessa Abrams reviews Miranda July’s “All Fours.”
Why Hitch Still Matters: On Christopher Hitchens’s “A Hitch in Time”
Marius Sosnowski reviews Christopher Hitchens’s posthumous collection “A Hitch in Time: Reflections Ready for Reconsideration.”
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