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The Past Is Present: A Conversation with Tracy Fuad
Meg Miller interviews Tracy Fuad about “Portal.”
Cultural Studies
"Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors." — Simone Weil
Black Artists and the Logic of the Market: On Cord Jefferson’s “American Fiction”
Eskor David Johnson reviews Cord Jefferson’s film “American Fiction.”
Differentially Unwell: On Mimi Khúc’s “dear elia”
Seo-Young Chu reviews Mimi Khúc’s “dear elia: Letters from the Asian American Abyss.”
Viewing the Ob-scene: On Jonathan Glazer’s “The Zone of Interest”
David Hering reviews Jonathan Glazer’s film “The Zone of Interest.”
Whose (Who’s) Shakespeare? On Amelia Rosselli’s “Sleep”
Taylor Yoonji Kang reviews Amelia Rosselli’s “Sleep.”
Girls Gone Wild? On Apple TV+’s “The Buccaneers”
Sheila Liming gets to the bottom of Apple TV+ and Katherine Jakeways’s “The Buccaneers.”
Red Flags/Green Flags
LARB social media director Maya Chen rounds up her ultimate relationship red and green flags for 2024.
Among the Rose Petals, Queer Possibility: On Sasha Velour’s “The Big Reveal”
Christian Lewis reviews Sasha Velour’s “The Big Reveal: An Illustrated Manifesto of Drag.”
I Had Become the Target: On Taylor Swift and the Power of Revisionism
In a preview of the upcoming LARB Quarterly issue, no. 41: “Truth,” Claire Shaffer muses on how Taylor Swift has begun to recast her personal story and musical legacy.
Border Wounds: On Saretta Morgan’s “Alt-Nature”
Rachel Carroll reviews Saretta Morgan’s “Alt-Nature.”
White-centric Blowback: On Jason Ruiz’s “Narcomedia”
Michael Sandlin reviews Jason Ruiz’s “Narcomedia: Latinidad, Popular Culture, and the War on Drugs.”
The Last of the Menckenians: Struggling with an American Iconoclast
Michael Downs considers the troubled state of the institution that preserves the work of H. L. Mencken.
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