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Straining Nation or Expansionist Empire?
Benno Weiner reviews Edward Wong’s “At the Edge of Empire: A Family’s Reckoning with China.”
Biography & Autobiography
"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn
A Strange Career
Adam Sobsey reviews Jeffrey Meyers’s “James Salter: Pilot, Screenwriter, Novelist.”
Meeting as Wonderstruck Kin
Marissa Grunes reviews Renée Bergland’s “Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science.”
Over Time, the Spirit Moves
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore interviews Stacey D’Erasmo about “The Long Run: A Creative Inquiry.”
Poor Reading, Weak Theory: An Excerpt from “The Amateur”
LARB presents an excerpt from Saikat Majumdar’s “The Amateur: Self-Making and the Humanities in the Postcolony.”
Why Frantz Fanon Changed His Name: On Adam Shatz’s “The Rebel’s Clinic”
Robert J. C. Young reviews Adam Shatz’s “The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon.”
Heartbreak Supernova: On Carrie Courogen’s “Miss May Does Not Exist”
Tim Riley reviews Carrie Courogen’s “Miss May Does Not Exist: The Life and Work of Elaine May, Hollywood’s Hidden Genius.”
Cupcakes and Crotch Kicks: On Alex Belth’s “What Makes Sammy Jr. Run?”
Tom Zoellner considers the eternal game of cat and mouse between celebrities and journalists in Alex Belth’s “What Makes Sammy Jr. Run? Classic Celebrity Journalism Volume 1 (1960s and 1970s).”
The Man in the Ravine: On Andy McCullough’s “The Last of His Kind”
T. M. Brown reviews Andy McCullough’s “The Last of His Kind: Clayton Kershaw and the Burden of Greatness.”
A Masque of Difference and Likeness: On Michael Nott’s “Thom Gunn: A Cool Queer Life”
Daniel Swain reviews Michael Nott’s “Thom Gunn: A Cool Queer Life” …
Amour and Armour: A Conversation with Lyndsey Stonebridge
Samantha Rose Hill interviews Lyndsey Stonebridge about her new book “We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt's Lessons in Love and Disobedience.”
Gaslight, Gatekeep, Glossier: On Marisa Meltzer’s “Glossy”
Diana Heald reviews Marisa Meltzer’s “Glossy: Ambition, Beauty, and the Inside Story of Emily Weiss’s Glossier.”
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