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Granny Knows Best
Olja Knežević’s newly translated novel is a delightful portrait of a “women’s circle of witches” in war-torn Montenegro.
Around the World
"For a long time now I haven't been I."
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
The Art and Artifice of Remembering in Steve Fagin’s “The Batista Syndrome”
Susannah Rodríguez Drissi considers Steve Fagin’s video miniseries about trauma, memory, and Batista-era Cuba.
Can Hierarchies Be Rescued?
Chang Che looks at two books on the upsides of hierarchy, “Just Hierarchy” and “Against Political Equality.”
Glory to the Unknowns: A Visual Tribute to the World’s Poor and Vulnerable in the Time of COVID-19
Elle Kurancid and Hamada Elrasam on those struggling in Egypt in the era of COVID-19.
From Cluster Bombs to Spoons: An Interview with Artist Pratchaya Phinthong
Artist Pratchaya Phinthong discusses his sculpture “Spoon,” which is made from disarmed munitions and was featured at SFMOMA in 2019.
Koba: An Excerpt from Ronald Grigor Suny’s “Stalin: Passage to Revolution”
LARB presents an excerpt from “Stalin: Passage to Revolution” by Ronald Grigor Suny.
The LARB Banned Books Reader
An anthology of essays on works of literature that were — and, in some cases, still are — officially unavailable
Stolen Children, Erased Parents: The Story Behind Slovakia’s Parental Kidnapping Crisis
The story behind Slovakia’s parental kidnapping crisis.
“The Greatest Defect of This Book Is You, Reader”: On Two Translations of Machado de Assis’s “The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas”
Tal Goldfajn digs up two translations of “The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas” by Machado de Assis.
Key Island
A newly translated study of the vicissitudes of European immigration to the United States.
“Secretary Piñerarte” and “The Technicolor Flavor of La Vega”
For the first time in English translation, two pieces of political satire by the late Chilean author Pedro Lemebel.
“Unchangeably Appealing”: On Anatoly Liberman’s “Evgeny Boratynsky and the Russian Golden Age”
Sibelan Forrester reviews “Evgeny Boratynsky and the Russian Golden Age,” translated and annotated by Anatoly Liberman.
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