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German Pigs and the Autocrats Who Loved Them
“Communist Pigs” advances the swine history of Germany, taking readers to the era of authoritarian rule in the GDR.
Around the World
"For a long time now I haven't been I."
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
Greece, Cut and Dried
Piper French reviews "The Passenger: Greece," the new essay collection from Europa Editions and Iperborea.
The Tapestry of Voices: On Tash Aw’s Novels
Richard M. Cho considers the novels of Malaysian writer Tash Aw.
Slavery’s End: On Tom Zoellner’s “Island on Fire”
A history of Sharpe’s Rebellion in Jamaica and its role in the abolition of British slavery.
Reclaimed Histories: On Gabriela Cabezón Cámara’s “The Adventures of China Iron”
A new novel from Argentina offers a postcolonial feminist critique of the gauchesque.
Sublimely Ugly: On Elena Ferrante’s “The Lying Life of Adults”
Sarah Chihaya on the ugliness of "The Lying Life of Adults" by Elena Ferrante.
Truths Too Terrible: On Arthur Schnitzler and Franz Kafka
LARB presents an excerpt from Adam Kirsch’s “The Blessing and the Curse: The Jewish People and Their Books in the Twentieth Century.”
In the Shadow of Litani
A darkly fantastic novel of Jewish life in Warsaw on the eve of the Holocaust.
Contamination: On Qiu Xiaolong’s Inspector Chen Mysteries
Alex L. Wang investigates the Inspector Chen series by Qiu Xiaolong.
Murder in Kuala Lumpur
Collin Mitchell reviews “21 Immortals: Inspector Mislan and the Yee Sang Murders” by Rozlan Mohd Noor.
Threshold of Life: The Death of Nadira Kadirova
On global citizenship and the fate of the Istanbul Convention on violence against women.
What We Talk About When We Talk About Magical Realism
Fernando Sdrigotti seeks to break Latin American writers free from the magical realism pigeonhole.
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