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Serious Laughing Matter: Bassem Youssef on Comedy and the Arab Spring
Orly Minazad speaks to newly LA-based Egyptian comedian Bassem Youssef, author of “Revolution for Dummies: Laughing Through the Arab Spring.”
Around the World
"For a long time now I haven't been I."
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
Where Will You Take Me?
“'Time Pieces' comes across as a vexingly undecided little book.” Sven Birkerts on John Banville's Dublin memoir.
Long Perspectives: An Interview with Hannah Sullivan
Ralf Webb asks Hannah Sullivan about her new collection, “Three Poems,” the long poem, lyric poetry, and autofiction.
The Promise of Kibbeh: On Amir Nizar Zuabi’s “Oh My Sweet Land”
Shoshana Olidort finds sustenance in Amir Nizar Zuabi’s solo show “Oh My Sweet Land.”
Annotations of Pain: First Love in “The Only Story”
Thomas J. Millay finds Julian Barnes’s “The Only Story” a perplexing, profoundly enjoyable story about the phenomenology of love.
The City and the Pen: An Excerpt from Shlomo Sand’s “The End of the French Intellectual”
LARB presents an excerpt from Shlomo Sand’s “The End of the French Intellectual,” translated by David Fernbach and out this month from Verso.
“Living in the Shadows of the Dead”: Cathy Otten’s “With Ash on Their Faces”
Cathy Otten’s new book tells the tragic story of the Yezidi women taken captive by ISIS.
On Commuting
Barrett Swanson confuses and elucidates the act of commuting, while drawing on his own experiences of life and travel.
Laughing in the Dark: On J. R. Pick’s “Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals”
A. M. Bakalar reviews “Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals,” a novella by J. R. Pick, translated from the Czech by Alex Zucker.
Curating the Anthropocene
“Adrián Villar Rojas: The Theater of Disappearance” at the MOCA confronts the Anthropocene.
“Trust Your Vision”: An Interview with the Filmmakers of the Cult Classic “Liquid Sky” (1982)
Sasha Razor interviews Slava Tsukerman, Yuri Neyman, and Marina Levikova, the visionaries behind the cult classic “Liquid Sky” (1982).
The Gluttonous Genre Mutations of Rodrigo Fresán
The prose in Rodrigo Fresán’s “The Bottom of the Sky” bristles with energy.
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