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The Soviet Union and the Birth of Human Rights
LARB presents an excerpt from “A World Divided: The Global Struggle for Human Rights in the Age of Nation-States” by Eric D. Weitz.
Around the World
"For a long time now I haven't been I."
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
The White Readymade and the Black Mediterranean: Authoring “Barca Nostra”
Eleanor Paynter and Nicole Miller consider artist Christoph Büchel's recent piece, "Barca Nostra."
Storytelling and Forgetfulness
Amit Chaudhuri considers the relation between living, telling, and writing.
The Mystifications of the Art Market
Stuart Walton reviews Bernard Lahire's "This is Not Just a Painting."
Punching Down: On Bong Joon-ho’s “Parasite”
“Parasite” disrupts as many expectations as possible under limited spatial and temporal conditions, but does it have anything original to say about class?
Smoking with Elvis: A Tale of the Mangled Generation
A superb translation of a bleakly brilliant novel about the Bosnian war.
The Ordeal of Writing
Michael Krimper reviews a newly translated biography of Maurice Blanchot.
The Time Has Come to Talk About Oysters
Louise L. Schiavone reports on the decimation of tens of thousands of years’ worth of oyster reefs.
Korngold’s Operatic Dreamscapes
Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s “The Dead City” comes to life at La Scala.
The Catalan Paradox, Part V: A Conversation with Enrique Vila-Matas
Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi talks to novelist Enrique Vila-Matas in her latest look at Catalan literature.
“Why Did You Survive?”: On Yevsey Tseytlin’s “Long Conversations in Anticipation of a Joyous Death”
Linda Kinstler listens in on “Long Conversations in Anticipation of a Joyous Death” by Yevsey Tseytlin, translated from the Russian by Alexander Rojavin.
Shelve It Under “Caribbean”: On Karen Lord’s “Unraveling”
Fionn Mallon reviews Karen Lord's new book, "Unraveling."
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