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Literature and Life: An Interview with Soledad Fox Maura
A biography of perhaps the most interesting man in the (20th-century) world.
Around the World
"For a long time now I haven't been I."
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
“The Blood of the Unhappy Tsar”: On Helen Rappaport’s “The Race to Save the Romanovs”
Douglas Smith investigates “The Race to Save the Romanovs” by Helen Rappaport.
Possible, Not Alternative, Histories: A Literary History Emerging from Sunlight
LARB presents an excerpt from “The Origins of Dislike,” a new collection of essays by Amit Chaudhuri.
Recontextualizing the Archive: On Anouck Durand’s “Eternal Friendship”
Will Moore on the subtly subversive "Eternal Friendship."
Risky Rasskazy: Mikhail Zoshchenko’s Thoroughly Unsentimental “Sentimental Tales”
Bob Blaisdell considers the six longer stories collected in Mikhail Zoshchenko’s “Sentimental Tales,” newly translated by Boris Dralyuk.
2+2=5: On the White Sea-Baltic Canal and Totalitarian Pipe Dreams
Maya Vinokour considers dictatorial “gigantomania,” from Stalin’s White Sea-Baltic Canal to Trump’s THE WALL.
Mystics and Interlopers
"How effective are Islamic states at satisfying the religious needs of their citizens?" Nile Green on "The Iranian Metaphysicals."
Reckoning with Colombia’s Bloody, Conspiratorial History in Juan Gabriel Vásquez’s “The Shape of the Ruins”
Mike Broida finds danger in Juan Gabriel Vásquez’s exploration of the conspiracies that shaped Colombia in his new novel, “The Shape of the Ruins.”
The Many Lives and Deaths of the Body in Guadalupe Nettel’s “After the Winter”
For Callum Angus, Guadalupe Nettel’s mission in her newly translated novel After the Winter is “deeply personal and recognizably urgent.”
“Good” Refugees, “Bad” Refugees: A Conversation in Paris with Viet Thanh Nguyen
A discussion of a new collection of essays by immigrant writers.
The Charred Remains of the Fairy Tale
A Nigerian author’s new novel shows why #BringBackOurGirls is a Western fantasy.
Revolution from the Balconies
An up-close look at a rare peaceful revolution in Putin’s shadow.
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