The Monthly Digest: November 2019

In October LARB ran a number of articles that touched on issues of crime and punishment from varying perspectives: historical and contemporary, public and private, factual and fictional. We hope the selection below does the topic justice. — LARB Editorial

Justice and Forgiveness: On Attica Locke’s “Heaven, My Home”
On forgiveness and forgiveness betrayed in “Heaven, My Home” by Attica Locke, the sequel to her 2017 novel “Bluebird, Bluebird.”
Nathan JeffersonOct 31, 2019
- Noir
East of Eden: On Rachel Monroe’s “Savage Appetites”
Ellen Wayland-Smith reviews Rachel Monroe’s “Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession.”
Ellen Wayland-SmithOct 31, 2019
- Cultural Studies
- Gender & Sexuality
Out of the Glass Case: Museum Heists and Repatriations
Megan Ward looks at the 2018 film “Museo,” starring Gael García Bernal, and contemporary debates around museum repatriation and cultural memory.
Megan WardOct 30, 2019
The Carceral Invasion: On Brett Story’s “Prison Land”
A prison is less a maze of walls than “a set of relationships,” argues filmmaker Brett Story in a follow-up book to an acclaimed film.
Mark TreckaOct 19, 2019
- Politics
How to Forget a Massacre: What Happened in Paris on October 17, 1961
Laurel Berger revisits the events of October 17, 1961.
Laurel BergerOct 17, 2019
- Around the World
- History
Hereditary Cultural Burdens: Steph Cha’s “Your House Will Pay”
Jervey Tervalon appreciates the ambition of “Your House Will Pay,” a novel by Steph Cha that reckons with the legacy of 1992.
Jervey TervalonOct 15, 2019
- Fiction
- Noir
Histories of Violence: The Ghosts of Civilized Violence
Brad Evans speaks with Alex Taek-Gwang Lee, co-editor, with Slavoj Žižek, of “The Idea of Communism 3: The Seoul Conference.”
Brad EvansOct 7, 2019

The Monthly Digest: November 2019

Justice and Forgiveness: On Attica Locke’s “Heaven, My Home”

East of Eden: On Rachel Monroe’s “Savage Appetites”

Out of the Glass Case: Museum Heists and Repatriations

The Carceral Invasion: On Brett Story’s “Prison Land”

How to Forget a Massacre: What Happened in Paris on October 17, 1961

Hereditary Cultural Burdens: Steph Cha’s “Your House Will Pay”

Histories of Violence: The Ghosts of Civilized Violence