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In this issue
- Nevin Kallepalli joins a Shasta County newsroom to report on the concerns and complexities of many politically marginalized citizens in northern California;
- Cynthia Zarin records the atoms as they fall and autocrats as they rise across Virginia Woolf’s war-time diary entries;
- Calvin Gimpelevich flushes away potential misconceptions surrounding the history and politics of public bathrooms;
- Emmett Rensin creates a score of climate change literature, finding notes of hope and grief in everything from the Bible to contemporary “climate dirges”;
- Justin A. Davis considers mainstream depictions of race on the 50th anniversary of Ralph Bakshi’s controversial film, “Coonskin”;
- Anahid Nersessian people-watches over a martini (or two) at L.A.’s storied Taix French Restaurant;
- and, in a short story, Hannah Liberman writes of a possible cancer diagnosis that forces her protagonist to reckon with past relationships and losses.
- Become a member for all of that and more—including essays and features by Marina Magliore, Asha Schechter, Jeffrey Stuker, and David Louis Zuckerman;
- poetry by Rhoni Blankenhorn, Jodie Hollander, Anna Journey, Dalia Taha (translated by Sara Elkamel), and Tess Taylor; an excerpt from Joe Brainard’s “The Complete C Comics” titled “People of the World: Relax!”; and an art portfolio, introduced and curated by Perwana Nazif, and featuring works by Harun Farocki.
LARB Book Club
Join LARB readers, editors, and staff for engaging quarterly discussions of handpicked new releases. See some of our most recent selections below.
“Television” by Lauren Rothery
Smart, sly, and irresistibly stylish, the LARB Book Club Winter 2026 pick is Lauren Rothery’s debut novel, Television.
“Mother Mary Comes to Me” by Arundhati Roy
In her first work of memoir, acclaimed author Arundhati Roy recounts her remarkable life, tracing in particular her complicated relationship to her mother Mary. Vulnerable, compassionate, and sagacious at once, the LARB Book Club Fall 2025 pick is “Mother Mary Comes to Me” by Arundhati Roy.
“Fresh, Green Life” by Sebastian Castillo
Dive into a compulsively readable journey through philosophy, literature, and the antihero’s pursuit of self-improvement in the LARB Book Club Summer 2025 pick “Fresh, Green Life” by Sebastian Castillo.
“Audition” by Katie Kitamura
What unravels when a stranger claims he is your son? Take a front row seat for an exploration of power, performance, and identity in the LARB Book Club Spring 2025 pick “Audition” by Katie Kitamura.
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Editors’ Salon
Dive deeper into some of LARB’s most exciting new pieces, along with the writers and editors who produced them. See below for our most recent conversations.
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